Excel equivalent for TEXTBEFORE

Need to pull text out of a string. Starting from the beginning but going varying # of characters. Last character will always be immediately before an underscore. So in Excel I could use the TEXTBEFORE function. No exact counterpart in Anaplan but wondering if someone has already solved this with a workaround?

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Hi @BrentOrr you can pull out text out of a string using LEFT, RIGHT,MID functions.

You can try below steps:

Step1: Create a number formatted line item(lets say Test) to find the number of characters before underscore e.g., FIND("_", The text formatted line item)

Step2: Create a text formatted line item to pull the characters from left to the last character before underscore e.g., LEFT(The text formatted line item, Test - 1)

The text formatted line item is your Original line item with the string.

Cheers!

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Hi @BrentOrr you can pull out text out of a string using LEFT, RIGHT,MID functions.

You can try below steps:

Step1: Create a number formatted line item(lets say Test) to find the number of characters before underscore e.g., FIND("_", The text formatted line item)

Step2: Create a text formatted line item to pull the characters from left to the last character before underscore e.g., LEFT(The text formatted line item, Test - 1)

The text formatted line item is your Original line item with the string.

Cheers!

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