Hi James,
The simplest solution may be to write a basic function that returns the
filename from the cell contents. In the function, you could scan the
string backwards starting with the character at the 'string length'
position and look for a period, then continue until you find a backslash
or colon.
tc
James E. Lang wrote:
Thank you Dennis for your very prompt response. Since it appears that it is
impossible to perform a "find" from the right end of the string back toward the
left end I have had to take your advice to "Maybe do the second parse in
another cell" but since the path name that I am attempting to strip contains a
number of directory names I have had to do this multiple times. In my case, I
am using this information in a merged cell (B39:AK39) which hides 35 other
cells so I have placed this formula in cell C39:
SUBSTITUTE(CELL("filename");"%20";" ")
It takes the returned value of cell("filename") and changes all the %20 values
to spaces and stores the result in cell C39. Then I have placed this formula in
cell D39:
MID(C39;10;FIND("'";C39;2)-10)
It strips the leading single quote and "file:///" from the start of the string
and the trailing single quote plus the sheet name from the end of it and stores
the result in D39. Then I have placed this formula in cell E39 and filled it
right through cell AJ39:
IF(FIND("/";D39&"/")<LEN(D39);RIGHT(D39;LEN(D39)-FIND("/";D39));D39)
Each of these copies removes everything through the first slash starting at the
left end of the string that it finds in the prior cell. By filling the cells
right with this formula I am able to strip up to 32 slashes which ought to be
more than sufficient. I use the following formula in cell AK39 to finish the
parsing:
IF(FIND(".";AJ39&".")<LEN(AJ39);LEFT(AJ39;FIND(".";AJ39)-1);AJ39)
This strips all file extensions that may exist. Finally I reference cell AK39
in my displayed text with another formula like this:
"verbiage "&AK39&" more verbiage"
Cells C39 through AK39 are all hidden behind the merged cell so it looks
cleaner than it appears in this description. Though not clean, this does work.
I do wish that there were a cleaner way to do this.
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