Looking for how to do a double FIND formula

[Philippe L. Balmanno]

I have a cells in column A in varying lengths that I want to extract the
text characters in between two known and common characters { and }. I've
tried figuring out the use of =MID(A:A,FIND("{",A:A&"}")-1,255) however the
string of characters within { and } varies in length. Is there a way to
count the characters in between my search criteria and replace the 255 with
that number?

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

One way

=MID(A1,FIND("{",A1)+1,FIND("}",A1)-FIND("{",A1)-1)

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Peo Sjoblom

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[Aladin Akyurek]

=MID(A2,FIND("{",A2)+1,FIND("}",A2)-FIND("{",A2)-1)

I have a cells in column A in varying lengths that I want to extract the
text characters in between two known and common characters { and }. I've
tried figuring out the use of =MID(A:A,FIND("{",A:A&"}")-1,255) however the
string of characters within { and } varies in length. Is there a way to
count the characters in between my search criteria and replace the 255 with
that number?

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[1] The SumProduct function should implicitly coerce the truth values to
their Excel numeric equivalents.
[2] The lookup functions should have an optional argument for the return
value, defaulting to #N/A in its absence.

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

=MID(A1,FIND("{",A1),FIND("}",A1)-FIND("{",A1)+1)

includes the Braces, This is the text between:

=MID(A1,FIND("{",A1)+1,FIND("}",A1)-FIND("{",A1)-1)

 

[Philippe L. Balmanno]

I have a cells in column A in varying lengths that I want to extract the
text characters in between two known and common characters { and }. I've
tried figuring out the use of =MID(A:A,FIND("{",A:A&"}")-1,255) however the
string of characters within { and } varies in length. Is there a way to
count the characters in between my search criteria and replace the 255 with
that number?

Thank you I just had a small modification to include the start & end
characters.
=MID(A1,FIND("{",A1)-1,FIND("}",A1)-FIND("{",A1)+2)

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

That includes an extra character before the {

 

[Philippe L. Balmanno]

That includes an extra character before the {

Yes it's a space