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I need to count occurr. of the character "," in a single cell
i need a formula to count the occurence of the comma character (",") in a
single cell. That's the easiest way I can think of to count dates that are exported into a single excel file. I know I could use the text to column function and use "," as the delimiter and then count the cells, but there are a lot of dates and I might run out of columns. |
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I need to count occurr. of the character "," in a single cell
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))
"orchid11652" wrote: i need a formula to count the occurence of the comma character (",") in a single cell. That's the easiest way I can think of to count dates that are exported into a single excel file. I know I could use the text to column function and use "," as the delimiter and then count the cells, but there are a lot of dates and I might run out of columns. |
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I need to count occurr. of the character "," in a single cell
On Mar 21, 2:47 pm, orchid11652
wrote: i need a formula to count the occurence of the comma character (",") in a single cell. That's the easiest way I can think of to count dates that are exported into a single excel file. I know I could use the text to column function and use "," as the delimiter and then count the cells, but there are a lot of dates and I might run out of columns. Since you are trying to count the data that the commas separate, you need to add 1 to the formula that Teethless Mama proposed. One way would be with this formula: =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",E1)) + ISNUMBER(SEARCH(",", A1)) |
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I need to count occurr. of the character "," in a single cell
Thank you. I'll try it.
"Kevin Vaughn" wrote: On Mar 21, 2:47 pm, orchid11652 wrote: i need a formula to count the occurence of the comma character (",") in a single cell. That's the easiest way I can think of to count dates that are exported into a single excel file. I know I could use the text to column function and use "," as the delimiter and then count the cells, but there are a lot of dates and I might run out of columns. Since you are trying to count the data that the commas separate, you need to add 1 to the formula that Teethless Mama proposed. One way would be with this formula: =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",E1)) + ISNUMBER(SEARCH(",", A1)) |
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I need to count occurr. of the character "," in a single cell
Thank you - I'll try it out.
"Teethless mama" wrote: =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")) "orchid11652" wrote: i need a formula to count the occurence of the comma character (",") in a single cell. That's the easiest way I can think of to count dates that are exported into a single excel file. I know I could use the text to column function and use "," as the delimiter and then count the cells, but there are a lot of dates and I might run out of columns. |
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I need to count occurr. of the character "," in a single cell
On Mar 22, 2:54 pm, "Kevin Vaughn" wrote:
On Mar 21, 2:47 pm, orchid11652 wrote: i need a formula to count the occurence of the comma character (",") in a single cell. That's the easiest way I can think of to count dates that are exported into a single excel file. I know I could use the text to column function and use "," as the delimiter and then count the cells, but there are a lot of dates and I might run out of columns. Since you are trying to count the data that the commas separate, you need to add 1 to the formula that Teethless Mama proposed. One way would be with this formula: =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",E1)) + ISNUMBER(SEARCH(",", A1)) I realized on Saturday that this is incorrect where there is only one item in A1. More appropriate would have been something like this: =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",E1)) + (A1<"") Sorry about that, Chief! |
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