How can I use excel function (LEFT/RIGHT/MID) to extract string which sorrounded by same symbol?

Question

My string is like; eg: A2 column : This is a test string.

Where I want to extract word \'is\'. I know I have to use MID function wi

Answer 1

If you make all of the spaces the same width as the entire original string you can easily pick out the second word with MID and TRIM it back to its original.

'first word
=trim(left(substitute(a2, " ", rept(" ", len(a2))), len(a2)))
'second word
=trim(mid(substitute(a2, " ", rept(" ", len(a2))), len(a2)*1, len(a2)))
'third word
=trim(mid(substitute(a2, " ", rept(" ", len(a2))), len(a2)*2, len(a2)))
'last word
=trim(right(substitute(a2, " ", rept(" ", len(a2))), len(a2)))

The len(a2)*1 (starting point of MID) is the dimension that determines which word is extracted.