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COUNTMATCHES
The COUNTMATCHES function returns a number value representing the number of times a given substring appears in the original string value.
COUNTMATCHES(source-string, search-string)
source-string: Any value.
search-string: The string value to search.
Notes
COUNTMATCHES counts overlapping matches as separate occurrences (=COUNTMATCHES("asasa", "asa") returns 2).
REGEX is permitted in search-string for more complex searches.
By default, the search isn't case sensitive. To consider case in your search, use the REGEX function for search-string.
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=COUNTMATCHES("Please, could you, if you don’t mind, count the number of commas?", ",") returns 3. =COUNTMATCHES("To count all words, use regex.", REGEX("\w+")) returns 6. =COUNTMATCHES(A1, REGEX("\w+")) returns the number of words in A1. |