How to extract a phrase from cells only if the keyword occurs with an adjacent number?

Rnkhch

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Hello,

I have a column of data entered rather sloppily with cells that look something like this:

Day25Timepoint5T12:43 (meant to be 'Day 2 Timepoint 5 Time 12:43')

My goal is to extract the "day" information from these cells along with the number of the day. So for the example above, I would need "Day 25" to be extracted form that cell. But also I want the formula to work only if there is a number immediately after the word "Day", and I want the number to have 1 space from the the word "Day" if that 1 space already isn't there.

I was having a hard time coming up with a function 😅 Thanks for any input!
 
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Map1
ABC
1Day25Timepoint5T12:43Day 2512:43
2DayTimepoint5T12:44no date12:44
Blad3
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B1:B2B1=IFERROR("Day "& --SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,4,2),"T",""),"no date")
C1:C2C1=RIGHT(A1,5)
 
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Thanks. Just one thing I noticed is that if there a space already between "Day" and the number, then your formula doesn't work? (I got "Day 2" when I inserted a a space.)
 
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like this ?
Map1
ABC
1Day25Timepoint5T12:43Day 2512:43
2DayTimepoint5T12:44no date12:44
3Day 5Timepoint5T12:43Day 512:43
Blad1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B1:B3B1=IFERROR("Day "& --SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,4,2),"T",""),"no date")
C1:C3C1=RIGHT(A1,5)
 
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or like this
Map1
ABC
1Day25Timepoint5T12:43Day 2512:43
2DayTimepoint5T12:44no date12:44
3Day 5Timepoint5T12:43Day 512:43
4Day 25Timepoint5T12:44Day 2512:44
Blad1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B1:B4B1=IFERROR("Day "& --SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,4,3),"T",""),"i",""),"no date")
C1:C4C1=RIGHT(A1,5)
 
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That's better. I just noticed that with three-digit numbers it doesn't work if there's a space, but it works with one or two digits.

My XL2BB stopped working (Excel blocked it 😭 ) so I'm attaching the picture here:

Screenshot (48).png
 
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