seeking a formula to count occurrences of a character

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Ron

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if I can create a formula to count the
number of commas in a character string? For example, if a
cell contains the string "10,2,9,5" then I would like to
formula to return 3 which is the number of commas in the
string.

Thanks
Ron
 
=len(A1)-len(substitute(A1,",",""))

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HTH

Bob Phillips
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