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Count occurences in string
This should be very simple, but I don't see how to do it without a macro:
How do you count the number of hyphens (for example) in a string? abc-de-a32-ej2-wkjew-w should give 5 we2-232if should give 1 wekjf2 should give 0 |
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Count occurences in string
The below formula will do.
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",)) If this post helps click Yes --------------- Jacob Skaria "Ken" wrote: This should be very simple, but I don't see how to do it without a macro: How do you count the number of hyphens (for example) in a string? abc-de-a32-ej2-wkjew-w should give 5 we2-232if should give 1 wekjf2 should give 0 |
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:55:02 -0700, Ken wrote:
This should be very simple, but I don't see how to do it without a macro: How do you count the number of hyphens (for example) in a string? abc-de-a32-ej2-wkjew-w should give 5 we2-232if should give 1 wekjf2 should give 0 =len(str)-len(substitute(str,"-","") --ron |
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Ah ... of course. Thank you both.
Ken This should be very simple, but I don't see how to do it without a macro: How do you count the number of hyphens (for example) in a string? abc-de-a32-ej2-wkjew-w should give 5 we2-232if should give 1 wekjf2 should give 0 =len(str)-len(substitute(str,"-","") --ron |
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