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March 04, 2005

Counting letters in a string

To determine the number of occurences of a particular letter in a string - replace it with a empty character and compare the lenghts of the original and modified strings.

To find the number of 'g's in A1...
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1;"g";""))

Posted by Dave at March 4, 2005 06:23 PM

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