Using SEARCH to extract from concatenated field

happyhungarian

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  1. 365
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  1. Windows
Hi, I have a data that is in a long concatenated field. The issue I have is I only know a portion of the section I am looking for but I need to pull back the entire corresponding section. For example, if I have a concatenated field of "123CA,456US,789VT" on which I may do a SEARCH for "US" but I need my formula to return "456US". So I was thinking of using the "SEARCH" function to find the spot where "US" appears {in this case it would be "10"}, find the location of the commas that comes just before and just after that position so that the formula returns "456US". Any thoughts on how to do this?

Thanks!
 
Some more options with/without LET

21 02 19.xlsm
ABC
1
2123CA,456US22,789VT456US22456US22
3123CA8,6US123,789VT6US1236US123
4123CA,56US9,789VT99956US956US9
5123CA,789VT7KUHKH,351TS3LJ3,456US22456US22456US22
6123CA,456US2233445,789VT7KUHKH,351US3LJ3456US2233445456US2233445
7123CA,789VT7KUHKH,351US3LJ3,456US22351US3LJ3351US3LJ3
8999456US22,123CA,789VT7KUHKH,351US3LJ3999456US22999456US22
9123CA,456US22,789VT7KUHKH,351US3LJ3456US22456US22
SEARCH
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B2:B9B2=LET(ext,SUBSTITUTE(","&A2,",",REPT(" ",50)),TRIM(MID(ext,SEARCH("US",ext)-50,100)))
C2:C9C2=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(","&A2,",",REPT(" ",50)),SEARCH("US",SUBSTITUTE(","&A2,",",REPT(" ",50)))-50,100))
 
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