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Chandrashekar B

Counting No of character in a string

Hi,

I have a data for ex a;b;c;d in a cell if i find ";" excel formula should
display result as 3 because no of occurence of ";" in a cell is 3.

I need a excel formula to do this help me out.

Jacob Skaria

Counting No of character in a string

Hi Chandrashekar

Try the below
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,";",))

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Jacob Skaria

"Chandrashekar B" wrote:

Hi,

I have a data for ex a;b;c;d in a cell if i find ";" excel formula should
display result as 3 because no of occurence of ";" in a cell is 3.

I need a excel formula to do this help me out.

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