Conditional extraction from a string between two characters

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value name=“Stage”>B - program stage 1</values

I have a requirement to scan a string of which the above excerpt is buried. Every record will have this field in varying positions and value length.

What I need is to identify the string between the > and <. In this case “B- program stage 1” but only where the value name = “Stage”

I considered using Split but the characters are different and I could not find a why to attach it to the back of a conditional query to find “Stage”

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Hello @DSTAN,

Can you see if this formula will work for you?

ifelse(startsWith(split(Col1,'“',2),"Stage"),split(split(Col1, '>', 2),'<',1),"Nope")

Kind regards,
Andres.

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Hey Andres, the formula runs but returns the False result of Nope for all records

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This is the data I am using for testing, how does your data looks like?

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sorry, I may have explained this poorly. each record looks something like this, the bit I am after is only a small part of each records
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c_locate_stage:

substring(
    col1,
    locate(col1, '>', locate(col1, 'value name="Stage"') + strlen('value name="Stage"')) + 1,
    locate(col1, '<', locate(col1, '>', locate(col1, 'value name="Stage"') + strlen('value name="Stage"'))) -
    (locate(col1, '>', locate(col1, 'value name="Stage"') + strlen('value name="Stage"')) + 1)
)

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Conditional extraction from a string between two characters

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thank you @robdhondt that did it!