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This tutorial will demonstrate how to extract text before or after a character in Excel and Google Sheets. Extract Text Before Character using the FIND and LEFT Functions. To extract the text before the comma, we can use the LEFT and FIND functions. Find Function
See how to use the TEXTBEFORE function in Excel to extract text before any character or substring that you specify.
There are a number of functions in Excel we can use to extract text before a character quickly. Method 1 – Using LEFT and FIND Functions. The LEFT function is a TEXT function that extracts the leftmost text from a string. We can combine the LEFT function and the FIND function to extract text from the left of a character in a string.
Returns text that occurs before a given character or string. It is the opposite of the TEXTAFTER function. Syntax =TEXTBEFORE(text,delimiter,[instance_num], [match_mode], [match_end], [if_not_found]) The TEXTBEFORE function syntax has the following arguments: text The text you are searching within. Wildcard characters are not allowed.
The tutorial shows how to use the Substring functions in Excel to extract text from a cell, get a substring before or after a specified character, find cells containing part of a string, and more.
The TEXTBEFORE function extracts text that occurs before a given delimiter. When multiple delimiters appear in the text, TEXTBEFORE can return text before the nth occurrence of a delimiter.
You can use the TEXTBEFORE function in Excel to extract all text in a cell before a specific character or substring. This function uses the following syntax: TEXTBEFORE (text, delimiter, [instance_num], [match_mode], [match_end], [if_not_found]) where: text: Text to search. delimiter: Character or substring to extract text before.