find text between two symbols.

[waterj4]

I have a text file that I want to get the data that is between two symbols. (":" and ",")

example of Text field
"Pet: Dog, Rover Black lab"
"Pet: Fish, Moby Goldfish"
"Pet: Bird, Tweety Canary"

I just want to grab between ":" and "," to return

" Dog"
" Fish"
" Bird"

How do I do this?

 

[PHV]

Have a look at the InStr and Mid functions.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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