Comments on: Counting Items in a Comma-Separated List

By: Howard Parks

Howard Parks — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:46:00 +0000

I have a similar problem, to the initial posting by Matt, where I'm trying to track and chart numerous variables.

Case # Def Name Charges Victim Name Contact
1016-CR04123Doe, John MII, ACA Wilson, AndrewWilson, Sandy
816-CR05349Brown, Brandon MII, ACA, Atmpt Rbry 1 Smith, Devin Boro, Jason
816-CR05350Wilson, Claude Invol Mnsltr Scott, Mark Scott, David

I have my Excel spreadsheet set up recording information such as listed above. I've used a drop-down list for selecting and adding the criminal charges. The problem comes in when I attempt to list the total of each charge. For instance, A separate worksheet should list: MII 2
ACA 2
Atmpt Rbry 1 1
Invol Mnsltr 1

From there, I'd like to be able to input these numbers into a bar, pie, or other type of chart.

Thanks!!

By: Jack Whitmer

Jack Whitmer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:39:00 +0000

Help! I have been looking at Q&A, and Excel Web Pages for over four hours and this page seems as close as I am going to get to someone that maybe able to help me. I have down loaded many ten character CVS strings (0000000001)(000000010)etc. into a single Excel column and want to count,vertically,the number of “1? in each character positions.Each string can have from 1 to 9 “1? in the string. I am not interested in an “Array” because I plan to add more strings on the fly.

By: Ergi

Ergi — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:16:00 +0000

Count commas in string (Excel 2002)
=LEN(C5)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(C5;",";""))+1

By: Enas

Enas — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:18:00 +0000

Is it possible to extract a words that contains only comma from the exel??

By: Trick

Trick — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:43:00 +0000

Can't you just use this:
{=COUNT(FIND(D2,$B$2:$B$5))}
I think this works just as well without all of the changing this into that stuff...
Find it and count it...keep it simple

By: jay

jay — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:52:00 +0000

this was great!

By: Adnan

Adnan — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:38:00 +0000

Hello Everyone,

I need to pick each value in Column B1 seperated by a comma from a cell and combine it with value in column A1 and write it into a seperate row.

A1 B1
149,46,1025,15348
20049

I need the above text as formatted below

149
146
11025
15348
20040

By: Juan Pablo Gonz·lez

Juan Pablo Gonz·lez — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:27:00 +0000

Just count the number of commas:

=LEN(A2) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2, ",", "")) + 1

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:12:00 +0000

Rather than looking for a specific item in multiple lists, what if you need to count the number of elements in a comma-separated list?

For example, say the list is, "food, water, rocks, fish, oranges". I'd like a formula that returns "5?.

Any ideas?

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:10:00 +0000

Tom

That formula in B2 is =A1?does not equal"A2. The less than and greater than symbols didn't show up on my first comment.

Brett