Count occurences in string

K

Ken

This should be very simple, but I don't see how to do it without a macro:
How do you count the number of hyphens (for example) in a string?

abc-de-a32-ej2-wkjew-w should give 5
we2-232if should give 1
wekjf2 should give 0
 
J

Jacob Skaria

The below formula will do.

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

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