Extracting Text in middle of string with different lengths and ends

slugwisper

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Hello,

I'm trying to extract
"social-studies/holidays-and-culture"
from

"/content/classroom_magazines/watchandlearn/videos/social-studies/holidays-and-culture/100-days-of-school.html"


The begining is always the same:
/content/classroom_magazines/watchandlearn/videos/

But the tail end is variable:

"100-days-of-school.html"

Help is much appreciated!
 

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Hi, welcome to the board :)

For these types of questions it's generally better to provide several examples but maybe this will cover your scenarios.


Excel 2013/2016
AB
1/content/classroom_magazines/watchandlearn/videos/social-studies/holidays-and-culture/100-days-of-school.htmlsocial-studies/holidays-and-culture
2/content/classroom_magazines/watchandlearn/videos/a/b/c/d/stuff.htmla/b/c/d
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B1=MID(A1,51,LEN(A1)-51-LEN(TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/",REPT(" ",255)),255))))
 
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