Extracting text out of a string in a cell

Peter Davison

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
I have the following folder structure in Cell S2 -
C:\Cluster Insight\Micro Development\Raw Data\Breakfast Cereals\ImportFile.xlsx
I want to be able to put a formula in Cell S3 that returns me "Breakfast Cereals"
I have tried to build the formula from google help (below), but I can't work out what is wrong. I'm also not sure what the CHAR(1) is doing?
This is my formula, which has an error

=MID(S2,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(S2,”\”,CHAR(1),4))+1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(S2,”\”,CHAR(1),5)) – FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(S2,”\”,CHAR(1),4))-1)

Any help or guidance would be great.
Thanks
 

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Excel Formula:
=CHOOSECOLS(TEXTSPLIT(S2,"\"),-2)
 
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