Count text that occurs multiple times in excel cell
Question: How do I count how many times a text string occurs in a cell in excel?
Answer:
Formula in B5:
=(LEN(B1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B1, B3, "")))/LEN(B3)
Functions in this article:
Len(text)
Returns the number of characters in a text string
Substitute(text, old_text, new_text, [instance_num])
Replaces existing text with new text in a text string
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Thank you my new friend, I needed that. Nice idea to count the characters with and without the term and then to divide by the number of characters in the term.
Justin,
Thank you
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