I'm trying to produce a formula that can extract a text before that last comma.

for example:

Let's say in Cell A1 the cell has this: "A100, B100, C100, D100"

I want a formula on Cell B1 that returns the value: "C100"

I was able to produce two formulas that don't do this exactly but think a slight adjustment might do the trick.

1st Formula will return the value after the last comma i.e. "D100"

=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",CHAR(1),LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")))) 1,LEN(A1))

2nd Formula will return everything before the last comma i.e. "A100, B100, C100"

=IFERROR(LEFT(A1,FIND("=",SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","=",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))))-1),"")

Does anyone know what adjustment is needed to get "C100"?

Thanks in advance for your help

CodePudding user response：

Using FILTERXML()

• Formula used in cell B1

=FILTERXML("<m><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1,", ","</b><b>")&"</b></m>","//b[last()-1]")

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=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,", ",REPT(" ",100)),(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")))*100-99,100))

=INDEX(TEXTSPLIT(A1,,", "),LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")))

=@TAKE(TEXTSPLIT(A1,,", "),-2)