Splitting the name of dropdown

[vidya lakshm]

Hi,
Assume I have a dropdown by name : Module:drp:B5.
I need to split this string and get the value as B.Kindly provide some suggestions to i arrive at a solution for this problem.
Regards
Vidya

[Blade Hunter]

It's ugly but this works:

left(right(": Module:drp:B5",len(": Module:drp:B5")-instr(instr(instr(1,": Module:drp:B5",":")+1,": Module:drp:B5",":")+1,": Module:drp:B5",":")),1)

Returns the first character after the third :

[Blade Hunter]

This is a much more elegant way of doing it and it doesn't matter how many : you have:

Sub SplitString()
Dim MyArr As Variant
Dim MyString As String
Dim MyNewString As String
MyString = ": Module:drp:B5"
MyArr = Split(MyString, ":")
MyNewString = Left(MyArr(UBound(MyArr)), 1)
msgbox MyNewString
End Sub

[vidya lakshm]

Hi,
Thanks a lot. It worked perfectly.

Regards
Vidya