MID Function in Excel
What is the MID Function in Excel?
MID Function helps you to get a specified number of characters from a text string based on a given starting position.
What is the Syntax of the MID Function?
The Syntax of the MID Function is as follows:
=MID(text, start_num, num_chars)
text is the original text
Start_num is the position of the First character that you want to extract.
chars is the number of characters to extract.
How to handle errors with the MID Function?
You should be cautious with the ‘start_num’ and ‘num_chars’ arguments to avoid errors. If ‘start_num’ is less than 1 or num_chars’ is negative, the MID Function will return the #VALUE! error.. Also, make sure that ‘start_num’+’num_chars’ does not exceed the length of the string.
Is the MID Function case sensitive?
Yes, the MID function is case-sensitive. It will extract characters exactly as they appear in the text string.
Excel MID Function
If you use programming languages, like Python, you must have used a function called string slicing, which extracts a part of the string and can directly print it, or store a result. The same functionality can be achieved in Excel when we use Excel’s MID function.
The MID function can return a part of the string provided to it. Let us see the workings of this function.
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