Trying (unsuccessfully) to pull a date from the middle of a string

[zookeepertx]

Hello all,

I have spent 2 days trying to get this to work right and I'm obviously leaving out a parenthesis or a comma or something.

So, I'm trying with VBA to extract just the date from the following text:

Date created: 9/24/2024 2:35:55 PM

I don't want the spaces before or after the date and whether the month and day are 1 or 2 characters, it needs to show the whole date. (I don't want a formula in the report, I just want the date to appear in F2 (or whatever row is the current destination row).
My thinking was to use MID. Establish the cell being evaluated, find the first character after the : - which would be 9 in this case - to use as the start character. Then - to find the length of the result I need - find the first space after the: and subtract it from the length of text in the cell.

Here's what I've arrived at at this point but it's not working:

Mid(Cells(i, 1), (InStr(Cells(i, 1), ":") +2), (Len(Cells(i, 1) ) -((InStr(Cells(i,1), " " ) , (InStr(Cells(i, 1), ":") +2)-1) )))

But I keep getting a "Compile error: Expected )" message.

Can someone enlighten me as to what I'm leaving out or have in there that I don't need?

I would be very grateful; I'm so tired of looking at this I could tear my hair out!

Jenny

 

[zookeepertx]

Hmmm, I've tried twice to mark your last post as the solution but it doesn't seem to "take". And I can't even find where I can mark the topic as Solved.

 

[zookeepertx]

Never mind - I figured out what I was doing wrong and was able to mark this as Solved. I was just crazy.

 

[Zembu]

Does it have to be done using VBA?

With this in cell C8 Date created: 9/24/2024 2:35:55 PM

this in cell B8 =MID(C8,15,LEN(C8)-25)

gives 9/24/2024

 

[zookeepertx]

Does it have to be done using VBA?

With this in cell C8 Date created: 9/24/2024 2:35:55 PM

this in cell B8 =MID(C8,15,LEN(C8)-25)

gives 9/24/2024

Yes, it does need to be in VBA as I already had a macro that did everything else I needed. I was able to finally get the problem solved, but thanks for your reply!