Function or macro to extract data from a unstructured cell containing text

[tkeiffer]

Hello
I'm trying to find a way to extract a User ID from cells in a field called Metadata. The data is not in a similar format in each cell and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to easily extract the User ID to an adjacent cell so I can run it easily daily without having to manually pull it out. The example below is just 2 examples but the spreadsheet has many rows of similar data in the Metadata column. Is there a way I could extract the data between "User ID" and the comma after it, such as "A0019015260" in the first row, and "B757182" in the second row as per the desired results below? I just can't think of a way to do it. Can anyone help me???

Column A Metadata
Row 1
Metadata (Column Title)
Row 2
[Product:ABC, DEF, Question:[Location:https://webaddress.html, Source:Widget, User ID:A0019015260, Product:SAP ASE, ERP enablement]]
Row 3
[Product:GHI, Question:[Source:Form, product:GHI, User ID:B757182, Location:http://webaddress.html]]

Column B
Row 1
User ID (Column Title)
Row 2
A0019015260
Row 3
B757182

 

[tkeiffer]

I figured it out. I need to add this user defined function to a module. Usage =userid(A1)

Function UserID(r As Range) As String
Dim strTemp As String
Dim intPos As Integer

strTemp = Split(r, "User ID:")(1)
intPos = InStr(1, strTemp, ",")
UserID = Left(strTemp, intPos - 1)
End Function