Excel left and right substring

Question

I have text in a cell which starts with [ and ends in ] and I want to show the text between these two characters.

So far I have this:

    =LEFT(A2, SEARCH("]",A2)-1)

but it still shows as [1234. I just need to figure out how to remove the first [.

Answer 1

There are several ways. If you know your string always starts with [ and ends with ] then you could use:

    =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"[",""),"]","")

If there may be text before [ and / or after ], then try:

    =MID(A2,FIND("[",A2)+1,FIND("]",A2)-FIND("[",A2)-1)

Answer 2

如果你想“剥离”第一个和最后一个字符，而不管它们是什么，你可以这样做：

=RIGHT(LEFT(RC[-1],LEN(RC[-1])-1),LEN(RC[-1])-2)