Thank you for the assist, it worked perfectly. Is there a way to lock this
function, so I can copy it?

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

=LEN(B10)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B10,"-",""))

for data in B10
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200789


"Greg" wrote:

I want to count how often a single value (the dash symbol) occurs in a
single cell than rank it. Showing two examples, AUS-IAH/PTY-IAH/AUS is in
cell A1 and
AUS-ORD-LHR/WAW-LHR-ORD/AUS is cell A2. Cell A1 has 2 dashes and A2 has 4
dashes. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you.