Text to the left and right of a character

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Esra

I have a list of file names (Music), the format is "Beatles - Yellow
Submarine" in cells a1 to a10000 (for arguments sake). I want to have
in B1 - Beatles and in C1 - Yellow Submarine.

All files are the same format (Beatles - Yellow Submarine.mp3)

What formulas would I use to get the text to the left of "-" and text
to the right of "-"? Any helpers greatly appreciated

Esra
 
Did you mention the filenames with the mp3 extension for a reason? I'm
assuming the first part of your post (no .mp3) is what is in Column A. See
if these formula do what you want...

B1: =TRIM(LEFT(A1, FIND("-",A1)-1))
C1: =TRIM(MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,255))

Rick


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=LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-2) gets you Beatles
=MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+2,256) get Yellow Submarine.mp3
=MID(A2,FIND("-",A1)+2,LEN(A1)-FIND("-",A1)-5) gets Yellow Submarine

But have you looked into Data | Text to Columns ?
best wishes
 
Did you mention the filenames with the mp3 extension for a reason? I'm
assuming the first part of your post (no .mp3) is what is in Column A. See
if these formula do what you want...

B1:    =TRIM(LEFT(A1, FIND("-",A1)-1))
C1:    =TRIM(MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,255))

Rick



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Works just fine thank you so much, and thanks to all who answered.
I mentioned mp3 not for any specific reason, I just have to
delete .mp3 before I can get the correct value, easy enough to do.

Again thank you
 
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