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Parse data of unknown length from middle of text string

Asked by HTC1898 in Microsoft Access Database, SQL Query Syntax

Tags: Microsoft, Access, 2000

I have a text field that holds data that has 5 parts all separated by a period (.)  A small sample would be:
3.LXFU.99450..NW
3.LXFU.100249..NW
3.LXFU.448..NW
This data is coming in with other fields of data from a .csv file that is comma delimited.

I need to extract the 3rd section of data (the data after the second period).  The problem is that the length of this data varies.  I used the MID function in an update query but that doesn't allow me to set an unknown number of characters.
Is that a way to grab characters in the middle of a text string when the length varies or is there a way to parse that field based on a . delimiter?

Thanks!
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