A cell contains "1,2,3"; and I want to count those sep. by comma
 

I have three columns. Column A contains a number, column B contains bunch of
numbers separated by comma corresponding to the number in column A. In the
column C, I want to count the numbers in col. B separated by comma. Example:

Column A Column B Column C
1200 2,3,4,8 4 (i.e.
there are four numbers

in column B)

One possibility:

=IF(B1="","",LEN(B1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B1,",",""))+1)

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"Mahendra" wrote:

I have three columns. Column A contains a number, column B contains bunch of
numbers separated by comma corresponding to the number in column A. In the
column C, I want to count the numbers in col. B separated by comma. Example:

Column A Column B Column C
1200 2,3,4,8 4 (i.e.
there are four numbers

in column B)

Mahendra,

In C1, to count the items in B1

=IF(B1<"",LEN(B1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B1,",",""))+1,0)

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Mahendra" wrote in message
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I have three columns. Column A contains a number, column B contains bunch of
numbers separated by comma corresponding to the number in column A. In the
column C, I want to count the numbers in col. B separated by comma. Example:

Column A Column B Column C
1200 2,3,4,8 4 (i.e.
there are four numbers

in column B)