Split a string (cell) in Excel without VBA (e.g. for array formula)

Question

I have data in an Excel spreadsheet with delimited strings. For simplicity, think of something like \"4#8#10\", with an arbitrary number of pieces.

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Answer 1

With your data in A1, in B1 enter:

=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE($A1,"#",REPT(" ",999)),COLUMNS($A:A)*999-998,999))

and copy across.