FORMULA & SQL / TEXT

Text after the last separator.
Tested, not guessed.

The Excel and Google Sheets formula and the SQL query, each run on the rows below. Open this with your own data ↗

The example rows

Row	A: Region	B: Rep	C: Amount	D: Order Date	E: Status	F: Customer
2	North	Ana	1,200	2026-03-01	Paid	Jo Smith
3	South	Ben	450	2026-03-15	Open	Raj Patel
4	North	Cy	300	2026-04-02	Paid	Lee Wong
5	East	Ana	980.50	2026-04-20	Paid	Mia Ross
6	North	Ben	75	2026-05-05	Open	Jo Smith
7	West	Dee	1,640	2026-05-18	Paid	Sam Okoro

Excel

=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",REPT(" ",100)),100))

The last 100 characters of Region (A2) with " " replaced by REPT(" ", 100) with extra spaces removed.

Run on the example rows:

PostgreSQL

SELECT REVERSE(SPLIT_PART(REVERSE(region), ' ', 1)) AS last_part
FROM sales

Run on the example rows:

Other databases

MySQL

SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(region, ' ', -1) AS last_part
FROM sales

SQL Server

SELECT RIGHT(region, CHARINDEX(' ', REVERSE(region) + ' ') - 1) AS last_part
FROM sales

BigQuery

SELECT ARRAY_REVERSE(SPLIT(region, ' '))[OFFSET(0)] AS last_part
FROM sales

Snowflake

SELECT SPLIT_PART(region, ' ', -1) AS last_part
FROM sales

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