Is there a way to call functions on the exact text of a formula?
I'm making a spreadsheet in Google Sheets where I analyze music genres based on specific predetermined data. Because of how I've set it up, my method of checking how many elements there are is counting the number of "+" symbols in the formula, but I am currently unable to do that.
For instance, the exact text of cell B2 is currently "=26+26+26+26+13+24+12+24+24+24+22", which equates to and displays as 247. There are 10 "+" symbols in this cell. When I call the code =LEN(B2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B2,"+","")) on this cell, the number returned is 0, as it is checking the text "247" for "+" symbols. Is there a way to call a function on the exact inputted text of a formula, instead of the value the formula returns?
FORMULATEXT is what you are looking for...
try:
=LEN(REGEXREPLACE(FORMULATEXT(A1), "[0-9=]", ))+1
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