Need help nesting some formulas

**jceg316** · 03-05-2014, 07:02 AM

Hello. I'm trying to get some information from within a cell. As I'm working with URLs, the first bit is the same in all of them but I need to get the bit that's different isolated in a separate cell. Does anyone know a quicker way of doing this?

For example:
I cell A1 I have the full URL: /products/acrylic-colours/artists-acrylic-colour-/colour-chart/antique-gold/ ("antique-gold" is the bit of the URL I want to isolate).

In cell B1 I have the formula:=SUBSTITUTE(A1,TRIM(RIGHT(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"chart/",REPT(" ",100)),100),100)),"") which returns "chart/antique-gold/"

In cell C1 I have the formula: =RIGHT(B1, LEN(B1)-6) which returns "antique-gold"

Is there a way to combine these 3 formulas so in cell B1 I can get the result "antique-gold"? This needs to be scalable as well to hundreds of URLs. But what they all have in common is /products/acrylic-colours/artists-acrylic-colour-/colour-chart/ at the beginning and a backslash on the end.

Thanks in advance.

**etaf** · 03-05-2014, 07:51 AM

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are you looking for the word Antique-gold in the string
OR
are you looking for whatever follows chart/

it returns
chart/antique-gold/
and then
antique-gold/

=RIGHT(A1, LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,TRIM(RIGHT(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"chart/",REPT(" ",100)),100),100)),""))-6)

**jceg316** · 03-05-2014, 10:22 AM

My last message didn't seem to post...

I am looking for whatever follows "chart/". Your formula worked really well thanks.

**etaf** · 03-05-2014, 12:28 PM

your welcome
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