How to pull text after a multi-character "delimiter"?

PSExcellence

Tried searching and couldn't find another discussion that matched my issue. I am attempting to write a formula to extract only what falls after the "DBA" portion of a company's name. For example if the company name is "Vance Refrigeration DBA Kool Guyz" then I just want to pull "Kool Guyz". I've tried using FIND and LEFT, but using "dba" as a delimeter doesn't work (because it can apparently only be one character)?

PSExcellence

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/456462#Comment_456462

Modified it slightly to account for company names that do not contain DBA, and ended up with =IF(CONTAINS("dba", [Company Name]@row), MID([Company Name]@row, FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row) + 4, 200), [Company Name]@row)

Thanks so much!

PSExcellence

FINALLY got it!! =IF(FIND("dba", [Company Name]@row) > 0, MID([Company Name]@row, FIND("dba", [Company Name]@row) + 4, LEN([Company Name]@row)), IF(FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row) > 0, MID([Company Name]@row, FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row) + 4, LEN([Company Name]@row)), [Company Name]@row))

AravindGP

Hi @PSExcellence

You can try this

=RIGHT([Company Name]@row, LEN([Company Name]@row) - 2 - FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row))

PSExcellence

Hmm. For some reason all this formula is doing is removing the first two letters of the Company Name?

Toufong Vang

Hi, @PSExcellence , another approach is to use MID().

MID([Company Name]@row, FIND("DBA",[Company Name]@row) + 4, 200)

FIND() "DBA"; then return the 200 characters that are 4 characters from the position where "DBA" is found.

If you want to be precise, use LEN([Company Name]@row) - FIND("DBA",[Company Name]@row) - 4 instead of "200". (But "200" requires fewer keystrokes!🙂)

Cheers!

PSExcellence

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/456462#Comment_456462

Modified it slightly to account for company names that do not contain DBA, and ended up with =IF(CONTAINS("dba", [Company Name]@row), MID([Company Name]@row, FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row) + 4, 200), [Company Name]@row)

Thanks so much!

BowenL

Hi @PSExcellence

here you go.

=MID([Column2]@row, FIND("DBA", [Column2]@row) + 3, LEN([Column2]@row) - FIND("DBA", [Column2]@row) - 2)

PSExcellence

Realizing I can't get any of these formulas to work, because some of the names contain "DBA" in all caps, and others contain "dba" lower-case.

I need a formula that essentially says "If [Company Name]@row contains "dba" then return the portion of the name that falls AFTER dba, If [Company Name]@row contains "DBA" then return the portion of the name that falls AFTER DBA, and if neither of these are true then just return what's in [Company Name]@row"

PSExcellence

FINALLY got it!! =IF(FIND("dba", [Company Name]@row) > 0, MID([Company Name]@row, FIND("dba", [Company Name]@row) + 4, LEN([Company Name]@row)), IF(FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row) > 0, MID([Company Name]@row, FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row) + 4, LEN([Company Name]@row)), [Company Name]@row))

Georgie

Hey @PSExcellence,

Thank you for posting your solution. I'm glad you got this resolved!

Georgie