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counting no. of times a character occurs in a cell
Can a function tell the number of times a particular character is occuring in
a text string in a particular cell? A1 contains ABCD,ACDT,AKBL,BCDF,PIZQ I would like to count no. of "commas" appearing (",") in this cell. hellp appreciated, thanks hsg |
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counting no. of times a character occurs in a cell
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=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")) Mike "hsg" wrote: Can a function tell the number of times a particular character is occuring in a text string in a particular cell? A1 contains ABCD,ACDT,AKBL,BCDF,PIZQ I would like to count no. of "commas" appearing (",") in this cell. hellp appreciated, thanks hsg |
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counting no. of times a character occurs in a cell
VERY slick! I wouldn't have thought of that one.
--- "Mike H" wrote: =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")) |
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count no. of commas in a cell
excellent!
Never figured it out that way! Thanks Mike, Gary's student, Ashish |
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