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    Frequency count

    Hi all.

    I wonder whether you can help me.

    I am trying to find the frequency that one letter occurs in a given text string.

    For instance - HHHAAAAH - I want to now how many H's and how many A's occur (4 H and 4 A).

    Does anybody know how to accomplish this?

    Many thanks

    Matt

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    Try

    =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"H",""),"H",""))

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    Spot on! Top work!!

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    Nearly

    should of being

    =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"H",""),"h",""))

    Just in case you have a mix of proper and lower case

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    Or if you want to count both upper and lower case together

    =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(LOWER(A1),"h",""))

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