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RIGHT
RIGHT returns a set number of characters from the end of a string, the mirror of LEFT. Combine it with LEN and FIND to grab a suffix of any length.
Excel
=RIGHT(A2, 3)Google Sheets
=RIGHT(A2, 3)✓
Verified example
Computed by a real spreadsheet engine on the sample data below.
| Code |
| ITEM-042 |
=RIGHT(A2, 3)→042
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How it works
- 1A2 holds the text.
- 23 is how many characters to take from the right.
- 3"ITEM-042" returns "042".