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Excel Formula - Delete after last occurrence of delimiter 1

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Moebius01

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Hoping this is the right forum for this question.

I'm trying to come up with a formula to delete all characters after the last occurrence of a delimiter, but I keep getting stuck. I have something to work with text after a delimiter, but ran into a problem when the string contained in more than once.

If cell A1 contains "Corp-Acct-NYC" I need to return "Corp-Acct".

 
=LEFT(A1,FIND("-",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","#",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",""))-1))-1)

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