Countif left and alphanumberical data

[Onyx]

I'm wanted to build a formula that will do the following,

CountIF(Column begins with array) I can't see to get the function to work.

Reallife example

Count a column of postcodes to find any postcodes beginning with EH, LG,
etc... and giving me a total

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Try the below which will get you the count of postcodes starting with EH

=COUNTIF(A:A,"EH*")


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[Onyx]

Thank you, but i want the could to look up a list of post codes

 

[Jacob Skaria]

With you list in C1:C10 the below will count the entries in A:a100 for which
the first two characters are in the list

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(MATCH(LEFT(A1:A100,2),C1:C10,0))))

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[Ron Rosenfeld]

I'm wanted to build a formula that will do the following,

CountIF(Column begins with array) I can't see to get the function to work.

Reallife example

Count a column of postcodes to find any postcodes beginning with EH, LG,
etc... and giving me a total

If there are no blanks, you could use this formula:

=SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(PostCodes,PostCodeList&"*"))

where PostCodes is the range where you have your column of postcodes, and
PostCodeList is the list of specific codes you wish to count.
--ron