extracting seelcted text from a column

[griseldagomes]

Hello Experts

I am trying to extract text after '\' from the input column upto 8 characters, however unable to do so in alteryx.
Can you please guide me, how can I achieve this?

Input

Andy 04/05/2024 6548934665\099265462y test

Brian 06/09/2024 9546849847\404654855z yes

Output

09926546

40465485

Thank You

[AGilbert · Accepted solution]

While there are many ways to do this the most succent and powerful is to parse the string with a regex expression. The example below will capture one or more digits (0-9) immediately following a \. The \ itself is a special character so it's normal use must be escaped by another \. 

[griseldagomes]

thank you @AGilbert