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Count the number of occurrences in a text string

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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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pnuts‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Hi @Moshi. I would not like to have to use the long-form of question every single time on a Q&A site. Sorry, can't see what grammar you have changed. I'm not sure but I suspect a space between ] and ( breaks a link.

Moshi‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@pnuts It's a problem for me, who finds one letter long links to be difficult to see and click on. Also, I'm not holding you to anything, I just felt it would improve the post

Moshi‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Also, i didn't realize that my grammar checker added a space in there, oops. I usually turn it off when writing markdown

pnuts‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago

@Moshi I have included a summary of what I interpreted to be the original question so I hope no need to click on the [Q] - it was only there for attribution. Did you not also suggest expanding other (non-link) Qs? What about the grammar?

Moshi‭ wrote about 4 years ago

because of the Comment there -> a comment

the user currently standing top of the All Time list -> on top of

pnuts‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@Moshi "standing top" means 'in first place' ("standing on top of" is having the list underneath the user).

Moshi‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@pnuts huh, never heard that usage before. It's always been either "on top of" or "at the top of", since it needs a preposition before top

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