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Default Counting occurences of characters in a cell

Try this:

=IF(ISERR(FIND(",",A1)),A1,TRIM(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(A1,",
","^",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")))))))


"John" wrote:

Hi,

I've want to be able to return the country in the cells, EG

Luxembourg
London, UK
Miami, FL, USA

I can get this to work using
=IF(ISERROR(FIND(",",P431))=TRUE,P431,TRIM(MID(P43 1,FIND(",",P431)+1,LEN(P431))))

Problem is when i have two ',' i only get Fl, USA where all i want is USA.
I vould possibly use an extra iteration in the function to say if the result
still has a common in then search again, but wanted to know if their is
something in XL that will count the number of ',' in a string?

THanks

John


 
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