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Default Count specific characters in a cell

Luke has the answer. Thanks Luke.

"JGreg7" wrote:

The text strings I have to deal with are actually fairly long. I have been
converting them to text and importing them into Excel as delimited files
using the desired character as the delimiter. I then have to sort and tag
the data and then reassenmble the text strings. Although this works, it is
very tedious. There must be a better way.

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Thank you,
John Gregory


"Arceedee" wrote:

It can be done by splitting the data into separate columns and then using a
countif formula but that may not be feasable in the s/s. If you have a whole
column of similar data then it's simple to use the Text to Columns feature.
More info would help.

I hope someone can come up with a way because that would be helpful to me
also.




"JGreg7" wrote:

Is there a way to count the number of times a specific character occurs in a
specific cell?

For example, if cell A1 has "ABC123ABC" and I wanted to count the number of
occurances that "A" showed up, and wanted the out put to be in B1. In this
example the desired result would equal "2".

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Thank you,
John Gregory