An alternative to Edward's is to pass 2 as the last parameter to strtran and then take care of the ~, if necessary, only in the last entry, so I presume it would run faster
m.String = STREXTRACT(m.test, "*", "*", 4, 2)
The last string would have the ~, but you can just get rid of it easily outside of the loop I presume you are using
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