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How to strip protocol and trailing slash from URL in Excel

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To remove the protocol (i.e. http://, ftp://, etc.) and trailing slash from a URL, you can use a formula based on the MID, FIND, and LEN functions.

Formula

=MID(url,FIND("//",url)+2,LEN(url)-FIND("//",url)-1-(RIGHT(url)="/"))

Explanation

In the example shown, the formula in C5 is:

=MID(B4,FIND("//",B4)+2,LEN(B4)-FIND("//",B4)-1-(RIGHT(B4)="/"))

How this formula works

The core of this formula is the MID function, which extracts the text in a URL starting with the character after “//”, and ending with the character before the trailing slash (“/”):

=MID(url,start,chars)

The url comes straight from B4.

The start is calculated using the FIND function like this:

FIND("//",B4)+2

FIND returns the position of the double slash (“//”) in the URL as a number, so we add 2 in order to start extracting at the next character.

Chars represents the number of characters to extract. We calculate this using the following expression:

LEN(B4)-FIND("//",B4)-1-(RIGHT(B4)="/")

The LEN function calculates the length of the original URL, from which we subtract the position of “//” minus 1. we also use a bit of Boolean logic to conditionally subtract 1 more character:

(RIGHT(B4)="/")

Here the RIGHT function extracts the last character which is compared to “/”. A result of TRUE is evaluated as 1, while a result of FALSE is evaluated as 0.

The Boolean logic is used to avoid additional conditional logic.

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