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Count the number of occurrences in a text string
If I have some text in a cell, how can I find the number of times another piece of text appears in it?
For example, suppose A1 contains Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.. pick occurs 2 times in this string. What formula can I put in A2 so that it counts the occurrences of pick and returns 2?
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=(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"pick","")))/LEN("pick")
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LEN(A1) gives the total number of characters in the original text.
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SUBSTITUTE(A1,"pick","") removes all occurrences of "pick".
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LEN(...) on that result gives the new length.
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The difference between the two lengths is the total characters removed.
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Dividing by LEN("pick") converts that into the number of times "pick" appears.
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