Parsing \

mbennett

Have a column called Manager Short Name. I want to parse out the ID after \, example EMEA\abcdf

I have tried many variations of

=RIGHT([Manager Short Name]@row, FIND("\", [Manager Short Name]@row) -1)

I get #unparseable

I have used this same formula in other columns but I have not had \ as the factor its been . or /. Some reason it doesn't appear to like the \ symbol.

Genevieve P.

Hi @mbennett

You are correct! Formulas are not a fan of the \ symbol as it's an escape character. We found on this other thread that adding it twice resolved the issue.

Try:

=RIGHT([Manager Short Name]@row, FIND("\\", [Manager Short Name]@row) -1)

Cheers,

Genevieve

mbennett

Thank you Genevieve! The \\ worked. I did have to switch my formula up a bit because it wasn't grabbing everything to the right. Since the left side was consistent I parsed that off using

=MID([Manager Short Name]@row, FIND("\\", [Manager Short Name]@row) + 1, 8)