Finding occurences of string in Excel

Question

I have a column in Excel filled with non uniform data and I need to find the occurrences of strings within it.

Example table:

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Using =COUNTIF(A:A, " "&B2&" ") would work, with the exception of "Apple", which appears twice in the same cell.

How do you overcome this problem?

Answer 1

How many duplicates can you have? Use the following formula, updating the row 10 to your maximum number of duplicates. Enter using Ctrl + Shift + Enter as this is an array formula.

=SUM(COUNTIF($A$2:$A$7,REPT("*"&$B2&*",ROW($1:$10))))

Answer 2

这是另一个公式选项，但是如果有大量数据，它可能会变慢

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(A$2:A$10)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A$2:A$10,B2,"")))/LEN(B2)