Counting occurences of characters in a cell
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 |
Counting occurences of characters in a cell
You can use SUBSTITUTE to get rid of the commas, so that (the length
of the original string) minus (the length of the string with the commas changed to "") will give you the number of commas in the original. Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 27, 1:54 pm, 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(P4*31)))) 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 |
Counting occurences of characters in a cell
=TRIM(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",CHAR(1),LEN(A1)
-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")))))) will return an error if no comma was found. You could hide it with: =IF(COUNTIF(A1,"*,*")=0,"",TRIM(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1) -FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",CHAR(1),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 -- Dave Peterson |
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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