How to pull text after a multi-character "delimiter"?
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)?
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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!
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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))
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You can try this
=RIGHT([Company Name]@row, LEN([Company Name]@row) - 2 - FIND("DBA", [Company Name]@row))
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Hmm. For some reason all this formula is doing is removing the first two letters of the Company Name?
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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) - 4instead of "200". (But "200" requires fewer keystrokes!🙂)Cheers!
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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!
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Hi @PSExcellence
here you go.=MID([Column2]@row, FIND("DBA", [Column2]@row) + 3, LEN([Column2]@row) - FIND("DBA", [Column2]@row) - 2)
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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"
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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))
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