How to get string in between two characters in excel/spreadsheet

Question

I have this string

Weiss,Emery/Ap #519-8997 Quam. Street/Hawaiian Gardens,IN - 79589|10/13/2010

how do I get the Hawaiian Gardens only?

I already tried Using some

=mid(left(A1,find("/",A1)-1),find(",",A1)+1,len(A1))

it gives me emery instead

Answer 1

If there are always two slashes before the string you want to extract, based on Tyler M's answer you can use this

=MID(E1,
     FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(E1,"/","~",2))+1,
     FIND(",",RIGHT(E1,LEN(E1)-FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(E1,"/","~",2))))-1
     )

This substitutes the second occurence of / with a character which normally would not occur in the address, thus making it findable.

Answer 2

Was your intention to also include Google Spreadsheets (looking at your title)? If so,you can use the REGEXEXTRACT() function. For example in B1

=REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"\/([\w\s]*)\,")

In Excel you could build a UDF using this regex rule like so (as an example):

Function REGEXEXTRACT(S As String, PTRN As String) As String

'We will get the last possible match in your string...
Dim regex As Object
Set regex = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
With regex
    .Pattern = PTRN
    .Global = True
End With

Set matches = regex.Execute(S)
For Each Match In matches
    If Match.SubMatches.Count > 0 Then
        For Each subMatch In Match.SubMatches
            REGEXEXTRACT = subMatch
        Next subMatch
    End If
Next Match

End Function

Call the function in B1 like so:

=REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"\/([\w\s]*)\,")