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Extracting characters from a cell

If cell A1 has      1-40000-059 entered in it.
How would I write a formula to just display the  40000 from that cell in B1?
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Martin Liss

8/22/2022 - Mon
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Daniel Pineault

@Martin
Interesting approach.  Thanks for sharing.
Tom Moholland

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Thank you both
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