Extracting words in between specified characters - question

[gambit023]

I have the following string in an two Excel cells:

CID.1204^Cardiovascular Disease^Cardiology^CARDIOLOGY^
CID.1202^Anesthesiology^Anes^^

How do I write a function to extract just the word inbetween the second and third "^" character (bolded and underlined)?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[njimack]

=mid(a1,find("~",substitute(a1,"^","~",3))+1,find("#",substitute(a1,"^","#",4))-find("~",substitute(a1,"^","~",3))-1)

 

[MrKowz]

Will there always be a second and third "^"?

 

[gambit023]

The code above only works is there are characters in between the last "^" marks.

if there is no data it doesn't pull back any info.

There will always be four "^" characters in each string but data may or may not exist in between every caret character.

 

[stefankemp]

Just replace the 3 and 4 in the formula with a 2 and 3 respectively.

 

[MrKowz]

<b>Excel 2003</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style=";">CID.1204^Cardiovascular Disease^Cardiology^CARDIOLOGY^</td><td style=";">Cardiology</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style=";">CID.1202^Anesthesiology^Anes^^</td><td style=";">Anes</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style=";">CID.1203^Cardiovascular Disease^^CARDIOLOGY</td><td style=";"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style="background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th><b>Sheet1</b></th></tr></td></thead></table><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">B1</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">ISERROR(<font color="Red">FIND(<font color="Green">"$$",SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Purple">SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Teal">A1,"^","$",3</font>),"^","$",2</font>)</font>)</font>),MID(<font color="Red">A1,FIND(<font color="Green">"~",SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Purple">A1,"^","~",2</font>)</font>)+1,FIND(<font color="Green">"#",SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Purple">A1,"^","#",3</font>)</font>)-FIND(<font color="Green">"~",SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Purple">A1,"^","~",2</font>)</font>)-1</font>),""</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

 

[njimack]

The code above only works is there are characters in between the last "^" marks.

if there is no data it doesn't pull back any info.

There will always be four "^" characters in each string but data may or may not exist in between every caret character.

Amended my formula:

=MID(A1,FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"^","~",2))+1,FIND("#",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"^","#",3))-FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"^","~",2))-1)

 

[gambit023]

Why is it that I feel like I've reached nirvana when you guys help me out with this stuff and things start working.


Thanks all!!!

 

[pgc01]

Hi

Also a variation on Neil's formula:

=MID(A1,FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"^","~",2))+1,SUM(FIND("#",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"^","#",{2,3}))*{-1,1})-1)