MS Excel: Extract between the Nth and Nth Character in a string
Using an MS Excel formula (No VBA/Macro), I would like to extract between the Nth and Nth characters and/or letters in a string. Example: I have text in Columns A2 and A3, I would like to extract text located between the 4th space and 9th space in each of the following strings.
Column A2: Johnny went to the store and bought an apple and some grapes
Column A3: We were not expecting to go home so early but we had no other choice due to rain
Results:
Column A2: store and bought an apple
Column A3: to go home so early
With Microsoft 365 or Excel 2019 you can use TEXTJOIN() in combination with FILTERXML():
Formula in B1:
=TEXTJOIN(" ",,FILTERXML("<t><s>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","</s><s>")&"</s></t>","//s[position()>4][position()<6]"))
The xpath expressions first selects all elements from the 5th word onwards and consequently only returns the first 5 elements from that respective array. Therefor //s[position()>4][position()<6] can also be written as //s[position()>4 and position()<10].
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