Extract Month From A Text String

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George

Good Day,

I have a date that I'm pulling from a report that is in a text string
format. What i need to be able to do is extract the month from the string so
that I can run a script against the month name. The format of the string is
as follows.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Thanks in advance for your help.
Sam
 
Hi,

Maybe this

= MID(A1, FIND(" ",A1,1)+1, FIND(" ",A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)+1)-(FIND("
",A1,FIND(" ",A1,1))))
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Mike

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Hey Guys,

Thanks for the quick response...It's exactly what I needed and works
perfectly..

George
 
Good Day,

I have a date that I'm pulling from a report that is in a text string
format. What i need to be able to do is extract the month from the string so
that I can run a script against the month name. The format of the string is
as follows.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Thanks in advance for your help.
Sam
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Assuming the text string is always the entire contents of the line, and is
always formatted as
dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy
or
dddd, mmmm d, yyyy

Then
=--MID(A1,FIND(",",A1)+2,99)
or
=DATEVALUE(MID(A1,FIND(",",A1)+2,99))

will return a number which is the Excel Date. (40282 for the above date).

You can then extract the month as a number [1-12] using the MONTH worksheet
function:

=MONTH(--MID(A1,FIND(",",A1)+2,99))

If you want the month as text, then:

=TEXT(--MID(A1,FIND(",",A1)+2,99),"mmmm")

--ron
 
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