Extract the text between last comma and last but one comma.

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Sreedevi - 05 Mar 2008 22:28 GMT

I have a very long text in a cell. EX:
4919,"0.019999","7.2.84.192","10.160.18.52","RTP","PT=Unknown (99), SSRC=0x0,
Seq=343, Time=514216 "

I need to extract only the Seq=343 portion of it. The length of the text is
not constant in all the rows. Also, the sequence number is sometimes 2/3/4/5
digit.

Please help

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T. Valko - 05 Mar 2008 22:40 GMT

*Maybe* this:

=LEFT(MID(A1,SEARCH("seq=",A1),255),FIND(",",MID(A1,SEARCH("seq=",A1),255))-1)

Returns: Seq=343

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>I have a very long text in a cell. EX:
> 4919,"0.019999","7.2.84.192","10.160.18.52","RTP","PT=Unknown (99),
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> Please help

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Dave Peterson - 05 Mar 2008 23:12 GMT

If you only want to keep the Seq=###, you could do this, too:

Select the range to fix
Edit|Replace
what: *Seq (asterisk, Seq)
with: Seq
Replace all
Then
Edit|Replace
what: ,* (comma, asterisk)
with: (leave blank)
replace all

The asterisk is a wildcard that represents any set of characters.

> I have a very long text in a cell. EX:
> 4919,"0.019999","7.2.84.192","10.160.18.52","RTP","PT=Unknown (99), SSRC=0x0,
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> Please help

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