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Well the title pretty much explains it,
I need to be able to count how many characters there are in a cell
so if the following are three different cells

11111 would return 5
1111 would return 4
111111 would return 6
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Jordan wrote:

Well the title pretty much explains it,
I need to be able to count how many characters there are in a cell
so if the following are three different cells

11111 would return 5
1111 would return 4
111111 would return 6


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