How to get url text out of field with HYPERLINK in it

Question

I have a column with hyperlinks formula in it, for example:

=HYPERLINK(\"http://example.com\", \"Link\")

I want to get additional column, w

Answer 1

One way would be to copy the column containing the formulae (assuming you would like to retain them) and remove the 'excess'. The removal can be achieved with Edit > Find and Replace... with Replace with left blank in each case:

The part to the left:

Find =HYPERLINK(" and check Also search within formulae

(If you want to break the link, put ' in *Replace with *.)

The part to the right:

Find ".+ and check Search using regular expressions and Also search within formulae.