I have a text string in Excel which contains 4 "/". I need the text (including "/'s" that come BEFORE the final "/"
The text can be of varied length, and is for instance
/Purchasing/Cambridge/d-division/jB8k4xLu
I want to only extract
/Purchasing/Cambridge/d-division
Sorry solved it with =LEFT( A1, FIND( "/", SUBSTITUTE( A1, " ", "|", 4 ) ) - 1 )
You can use something like this
=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"/",REPT(" ",999),4),999))
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Try this:Formula:
=LEFT(A1,MAX(IF(MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))),1)="/",ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)))))-1)
This is an array formula so you have to enter it with Ctrl + Shift + Enter.
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