Count rows with specific attributes in VBA
 

Hi all,

I need to create a function that lets me pass in a range and a value
that will iterate through all the rows in the range, check a specific
column in each row for a specific value, and if it exists, add 1 to a
counter. I want to do this in VBA, NOT using "SUM(IF" or "COUNTIF("
etc because these have limitations that don't work for me.

So something like this:

Foo(A1:A200, "matchVal")

Where A1:A200 is the range (really the range of ROWS) to check and
"matchVal" is the value to match on in whatever the column is that I
specify within the code of the Foo function.

Basically, I do not know how to, while iterating through cells in a
Range, access a particular column and check it for a specific value.
Can someone help?

Thanks,

Steve

Count rows with specific attributes in VBA
 

Explain the limitations that SUMIF has, it is a better solution.

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Bob Phillips

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"Steve Newhouse" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I need to create a function that lets me pass in a range and a value
that will iterate through all the rows in the range, check a specific
column in each row for a specific value, and if it exists, add 1 to a
counter. I want to do this in VBA, NOT using "SUM(IF" or "COUNTIF("
etc because these have limitations that don't work for me.

So something like this:

Foo(A1:A200, "matchVal")

Where A1:A200 is the range (really the range of ROWS) to check and
"matchVal" is the value to match on in whatever the column is that I
specify within the code of the Foo function.

Basically, I do not know how to, while iterating through cells in a
Range, access a particular column and check it for a specific value.
Can someone help?

Thanks,

Steve

Count rows with specific attributes in VBA
 

The "Count Unique Text Elements" solution proposed by Microsoft....

"=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY(MATCH(A1:A10,A1:A10,0),MATCH(A1 :A10,A1:A10,0))0,1))"

.... has a problem. It counts ONLY items that occur no more than once.
I want to count each item, but only the first occurrence. So if there
are three "X" values, I still want to count 1 of them, not 0, and for
that first one, fall through to the next conditional test in the
formula (joined by +, *, etc as is the custome w/array formulas). The
other problem is that the above code appears to return an array of the
size of the range + 1, which is annoying and means that subsequent
conditional tests have to use A1:A11 to prevent error...

Count rows with specific attributes in VBA
 

How about

=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A200<"")/COUNTIF(A2:A200,A2:A200&""))

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove nothere from email address if mailing direct)

"Steve Newhouse" wrote in message
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The "Count Unique Text Elements" solution proposed by Microsoft....

"=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY(MATCH(A1:A10,A1:A10,0),MATCH(A1 :A10,A1:A10,0))0,1))"

... has a problem. It counts ONLY items that occur no more than once.
I want to count each item, but only the first occurrence. So if there
are three "X" values, I still want to count 1 of them, not 0, and for
that first one, fall through to the next conditional test in the
formula (joined by +, *, etc as is the custome w/array formulas). The
other problem is that the above code appears to return an array of the
size of the range + 1, which is annoying and means that subsequent
conditional tests have to use A1:A11 to prevent error...