Question : Extracting Text

I have cells of information that read, for example, in cells A1, A2, and A3 respectively:

Tokyo (11-23) -3.40  
Sydney (100-5) +3.5
Paris (66-2) -10.5

I simply want to extract the city names Tokyo, Sydney and Paris into cells B1, B2, and B3, respectively.

There will always be a space between the city name and the open paren (

Thanks in advance!

Answer : Extracting Text

put the function for the excel sheet
= LEFT(A1,SEARCH(" (",A1,1))


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