The url comes straight from B5. The start is calculated using the FIND function like this: 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: 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: 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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