Question

I am writing a macro in Excel where I need to get a substring from a String.
It’s like this.

~/tester/test/hai/bye
~/stack/overflow/hai/bye

In the above cases I need to take the String tester from the first one and stack from the second one. I tried using InStr but it’s not useful. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You can do this using the InStr and Mid functions.
Use the InStr function to find the occurrences of the / and then use Mid to get the part of the string that you are interested in.

Try this:

Function ExtractFirstPartOfPath(path as String) as String

  Dim first, second as Integer

  first = InStr(path, "/")
  second = InStr(first + 1, path, "/")

  ExtractFirstPartOfPath = Mid(path, first + 1, second - first - 1)

End Function

This function will produce the desired results.