Count occurrences of a substring in an array

[Michael J. O''Connell]

Does anyone have an example of counting the number cells in a column (e.g.
D530) which contain a substring using the contents of another cell as the
substring? The position of the substring in the cell contents is not
important. Also the data does not make it possible for the substring to occur
more than once in any cell.

For example:

If A10 contained "car" as the substring and D530 contained various text
strings, two of them "carrot", and the remainder containing "X", the function
would return the numeric value 2.

Thanks!

Michael

 

[Mike H]

Try,

=COUNTIF(D530,"*Car*")

Mike

 

[RagDyer]

Try this:

=Countif(D530,"*"&A10&"*")

 

[Michael J. O''Connell]

Many thanks. Works like a charm!

Michael

Try this:

=Countif(D530,"*"&A10&"*")

 

[RagDyeR]

You're welcome ... Appreciate the feed-back.