It took me 10 minutes to decide whether or not to include that caveat and
the other formula!

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:06:20 -0400, "T. Valko"
wrote:

However, that will return an incorrect result if the entry was something
like this:

36142 ref lead 3614 ref go 3614


bbbbut 3614 is contained within 36142 :-)
--ron