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How to extract string between two different characters in Excel?

If you have a list of string in Excel which you need to extract part of string between two characters from as below screenshot shown, how to handle it as quickly as possible? Here, I introduce some methods about solving this job.

Extract part string between two different characters with formulas

Extract part string between two same characters with formulas

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Extract part string between two different characters with formulas

To extract part string between two different characters, you can do as this:

Select a cell which you will place the result, type this formula =MID(LEFT(A1,FIND(">",A1)-1),FIND("<",A1)+1,LEN(A1)), and press Enter key.
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Note: A1 is the text cell, > and < are the two characters you want to extract string between.

Extract part string between two same characters with formulas

If you want to extract part string between two same characters, you can do as this:

Select a cell which you will place the result, type this formula =SUBSTITUTE(MID(SUBSTITUTE("/" & A3&REPT(" ",6),"/",REPT(",",255)),2*255,255),",",""), and press Enter key.
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Note: A3 is the text cell, / is the character you want to extract between.

Extract part string between two characters with Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel, you also can extract part string between two texts.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!)

1. Select a cell which will place the extracted string, then click Kutools > Formula > Formula Helper.
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2. In the Formula Helper dialog, .check Filter checkbox, then type "ex" into the textbox, all formulas about extracting will be list in Choose a formula section, choose Extract strings between specified text, then go to right Arguments input section, select the cell which you want to extract substring from into Cell, then type the two texts you want to extract between.
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3. Click Ok, then the substring between two texts you specified has been extracted, drag fill handle down to extract subtring from each cells below.
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Bonjour,

je souhaite extraire de ce texte (USD) 934.915765 (30-11-2022) le numero 934.915765, ce que je souhaite c'est faire un extrait de tout ce qui est entre (USD) et (30-11-2022)
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Hi, please try this formula:
=LEFT((MID(I1,FIND(" ",I1)+1,256)),FIND(" ",(MID(I1,FIND(" ",I1)+1,256)),1)-1)
I1 is the cell that you want to extract number.
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Hi, try this formula please:
=IFERROR(MID(A1,FIND("CG",A1),11),IFERROR(MID(A1,FIND("CP",A1),11),IFERROR(MID(A1,FIND("CV",A1),11),IFERROR(MID(A1,FIND("CD",A1),11),IFERROR(MID(A1,FIND("CC",A1),11),MID(A1,FIND("CO",A1),11))))))

If there is no match string, it returns #VALUE! error.
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Hello, can you please help me with extracting a code from a cell? The code is always 11 characters long and it can start with either CC, CP, CV, CO, CG or CD. If it helps, it also ends with a number always. The code does not have a fixed position, it can be in the beginning, middle or end.
I tried this formula =MID(A2,FIND("CP",A2),11) but, as you see, it only finds the ones starting with CP.

An example of what the cell might contain is:
Text text CG1234dh201 text 123 text

Thank you!
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Mohammed Faisal
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Hi, I have an issue which i am struggling to solve. So I have a number of answers and i want to separate into separate cells.

i.e. A: XYZ|B*: SDR|C: AQS|

I can separate but my issue is there loads of line with the asterisk moving to the correct answer for each question. How do i get my head around this?

I am currently using the below formula

=MID(A5,SEARCH("A:",cell ref)+2,SEARCH("|",A5)-SEARCH(":",cell ref)-1)
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Hi, Mohannmed Faisal, from my understanding, your question is to extract XYZ, SDR and AQS separately into three cells. If so, please use formulas below separately:
=MID(A7,SEARCH("A:",A7)+3,3)
=MID(A7,SEARCH("B*:",A7)+4,3)
=MID(A7,SEARCH("|C:",A7)+4,3)
A7 is the cell that you use to extract.
Hope it help you.
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Bonjour,

J'ai un texte AAMMJJ que je souhaite transformer en JJMMAAAA
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Sunny     GG
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Hi, GG, try this formula =TEXTE(date; "jj/mm/aaaa")
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Hi How to get specific value from description like
Desc: Date: 2022-07-22 23:59:51 Node: VA10TWPSQL026 Type: TSM SM_SERVER_EVENT 2579 Resource: 1700 Message Key: TSM_VA10TWPSQL026

I want to get node value as VA10TWPSQL026
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Sunny     Sandhya
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Hi, Sandhya, if the node value always has a fixed length (14-chars), you can try this formula: =MID(A1,SEARCH("Node",A1)+5,14) hope it do a favor for you.
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Hola,

Me encantan tus foros.

Me podrias ayudar con esto?

Tengo una serie de columnas asi:

U CALIPER R/H/R 1J0615424H Es
N DOOR WINDOW SWITCH R/H/F 8E0959851D5PR Ebbett Audi
N TAILIGHT L/H - LENS & BODY - ON QTR - W/XENON H/LAMP 63217217311 Coombes Johnson European Ltd
U*GUARD R/H/F - REPLACE RET NUT ALSO 5G0821106A (V) Private Purchase

Lo que necesito extraer es el numero de parte de cada celda pero siempre esta en una posicion diferente, por ejemplo de la primer celda necesito solo 1J0615424H, de la segunda necesito extraer 8E0959851D5PR, de la tercera 63217217311 y de la ultima 5G0821106A

Muchas gracias

Anderson
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Hallo,

Ik moet een stuk tekst extraheren uit een cel, maar kom er niet aan uit.

51420647 Ondersteuner Kringdirectie (Unfilled)
P_00040501 Productmanager Wendbare Pool Bedrijven (Unfilled)

De tekst die ik nodig heb ik is het middelste deel tussen de cijfers en (unfilled).
Welke formuler kan ik hiervoor gebruiken?
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HelloI have an issue where I am trying to extract a number from a set of text and numbers in excel. This is an excerpt from the data I have:AUS23-7W
GER490-8W
MEX114-2M
MEX444-5M
MEX331-3W
US118-15W
ARG572-16W
Japan122-6W
Japan526-13W
ARG585-7W
Japan398-16W
Japan320-15W
ARG141-3Mo
Canada329-5W
US421-17Mo
Canada427-14W
I need to be able to extract just the number to the right of the dash. For example, I need Japan320-15W to return just the 15 in its own column. Is there a formula you could provide me with that can accomplish this? Many thanks!

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Hello, Duggled, to solve your job, just need two steps. Firstly, select the text strings, and apply Text to Columns under Data tab, choose Delimited > Other, and type - into the textbox beside Other option, click Finish. In this step, your data has been split into two columns by deliliter -. Secondly, use the formula  =SUMPRODUCT(MID(0&B1, LARGE(INDEX(ISNUMBER(--MID(B1, ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(B1))), 1)) * ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(B1))), 0), ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(B1))))+1, 1) * 10^ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(B1)))/10)（A1 is the cell that you want to extract the number from, here you change it to your second column cell）then the numbers after - have been extracted. Or in the second step, you can apply VBA, or our handy tool, for more details, please visit:https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/1622-excel-extract-number-from-string.html
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This formula works well for pretty much everything except these data :MEX114-2M
MEX444-5M
MEX373-15M
MEX540-8M
MEX396-11M
MEX386-10M
MEX369-14M
MEX446-3M
MEX75-12M
MEX372-3M
MEX178-6M
MEX510-7M
MEX361-17M
MEX501-13M
MEX221-17M
Is there any way you could revise that formula to include these? Thank you so much!
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Hi! Sorry if I reposted this and thank you so much for the formula.
But I'm not sure how to do this, I have this in a cell:

random comment;24/nov/21 2:34 PM;random ID;3240

and I need to get in separate cells the date without the hour, like 24/nov/21 . And, in another cell, the last numer; in this case 3240 (The format is alway the same, and the date is always 9 characters long, the only thing that might change is the last number, as is the number of seconds it took to do something)

How should I do it?
Thank you!! 
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Hi, to extract date, please use formula =MID(A1,16,9), A1 is the cell that the original data places, to extract ID number, please use formula =MID(A1,44,10),, for more details, you can refer to this articel https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/3639-excel-extract-part-of-string.html
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