Isolate string from filepath

[howster1976]

Hi,
Let's say I have 4 rows in Column A (titled filepaths) with the following filepath content:

A1: /page1/page2/page3
A2: /page4/page5
A3: /page6/page7/page8/page9
A4: /page10
...
A300 .....

...I need a formula to isolate the parent of the last child into eg the corresponding column B (titled parent), so:

B1 would derive a value of page2
B2 would derive a value of page4
B3 would derive a value of page8
B4 would derive a value of [blank] as it has no parent

Can anyone suggest a formula please that could achieve this?

Thanks

 

[Peter_SSs]

You're welcome. Thanks for the follow-up.

.. and for updating your details.

@Georgiboy BTW, if TEXTSPLIT was available this would be another option

=LET(ts,TEXTSPLIT(A1,,"/"),INDEX(ts,ROWS(ts)-1))

 

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