[mso] Re: once more COUNTIF ?
- From: "Joe Trimarchi" <jgt1945@xxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:52:29 -0400
Substitute in this instance is replacing the character with nothing, i.e.
"", so the length of the string is being shortened by the number of
replacements. In the first example it has 5 instances of e so the comparison
string becomes 5 less than it started out as.
Hope that helps,
Joe
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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Robert Carneal
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:03 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: once more COUNTIF ?
<Copy>
Well, you were paying attention. Your final assertion that COUNTIF will not
do what you're after in a single cell is correct. Now, I don't know which
function you would use to do that but I know how I would approach the
problem with VBA:
<End>
I am still learning VBA, but is this a non-VBA answer to my own question?
(Note: I am not sure +why+ it works, so Linda, your turn to explain how/why
it works with a sharp tongue. <g>)
If I have Mattie Lee Belle in A1, and =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"e",""))
in A2, then the result is 5.
If I have "1808-09-12" in A3, and =LEN(A3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","")) in
A4, it shows a result of 2.
This IS giving me what I want, but I am a little pleasantly surprised- I
thought SUBSTITUTE replaced a character for a character?
Thank you.
Robert
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