if you want VBA

Function CountOccurances(val As String, check As String)
CountOccurances = Len(val) - _
Len(Replace(LCase(val), LCase(check), ""))
End Function


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HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Ray" wrote in message
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Does anyone know of a function in VBA that counts number of time text
re-occurs in a string.

ie Test String ... T appears 3 times.

I wrote a function that does a character by character check but its very
slow when checking large amounts of data.

Thank you (if this post appears twice its because my comp keeps bombing)



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Ray