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Shawn ReichnerShawn Reichner 

Help With Regex Formula FIeld

Hello,

I am fairly nwe to the RegEx game and am struggling with the formula needed to extract some text between the first and second / in a string field.  I want to extract the text between the first and second / in the string to then populate a new formula field. 

Here is an example of the string itself that I need to extract info from.... Can anyone please help? 

Auto Launch Failed / Open Space Linda / Nashua, NH / AVI  Development

So in the example above I want to populate my new formula field with only "Open Space Linda"

Hope that makes sense and someone can help me out here.....Thanks in advance


Shawn
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LBKLBK
Hi Shawn,

Try this formula.
  
TRIM(MID(YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c, FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c) + 1, FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c, FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c) + 1) - FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c) - 1))
YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c would be the name of the field that is holding your original text.

Let me know if this helps.
 

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LBKLBK
Hi Shawn,

Try this formula.
  
TRIM(MID(YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c, FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c) + 1, FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c, FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c) + 1) - FIND('/',YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c) - 1))
YOUR_FIELD_NAME__c would be the name of the field that is holding your original text.

Let me know if this helps.
 
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Shawn ReichnerShawn Reichner
LBK, Thank you very much!  That did the trick.  Can you explain a little more as to what exactly is happening? Thanks again
LBKLBK
Try to read about the syntax for MID() and FIND() functions.

These are the functions I have used in this formula.

FIND() provides a number - basically the position of a specific character or the starting of a substring. And, MID() provides a substring of the text from a starting position to an ending position.

I have just found the position of the character next to first / and the position of the charatcer before the second /. And, stripped it out.

Hope this helps.