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How to find Number of Occurences of Slash from a strings

How can I find the number of occurrences of the forward slash character ( / ) within a string using an Excel VBA macro?

Solution

  • Use the below function, as in count = CountChrInString(yourString, "/").

    '''
''' Returns the count of the specified character in the specified string.
'''
Public Function CountChrInString(Expression As String, Character As String) As Long
'
' ? CountChrInString("a/b/c", "/")
'  2
' ? CountChrInString("a/b/c", "\")
'  0
' ? CountChrInString("//////", "/")
'  6
' ? CountChrInString(" a / b / c ", "/")
'  2
' ? CountChrInString("a/b/c", " / ")
'  0
'
    Dim iResult As Long
    Dim sParts() As String

    sParts = Split(Expression, Character)

    iResult = UBound(sParts, 1)

    If (iResult = -1) Then
    iResult = 0
    End If

    CountChrInString = iResult

End Function