How to extract piece of string within string

Question

I have a Log from which I want to extract anything after \"name= \". Log looks like this:

BC_WVM_FAIL: Rend wrong size for BCID 4608603 rend_id: 4608621 expec         


        

Answer 1

You've got a few options here. Both center around using either the FIND function (case-sensitive) or the SEARCH function (non-case-sensitive) for locating the starting position of what to splice out of the longer text string.

=REPLACE(A1, 1, SEARCH("name:", A1)+LEN("name:"), "")
=MID(A1, SEARCH("name: ", A1)+LEN("name: "), 99999)