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[Jennn]

Hi all. Any help is greatly appreciated on this:

I'm working with a database consisting of one and two digit numbers, if more than one number, it is separated by the || characters.

One column of the database looks something like this:

DATA
1
1||2
2
1||2||3||4||5||6
1||2||3||4||5||7
1||2||3||4||5||6||8
1||2||3||4||5||6||9

To do my analysis, I needed to count all the 1's in this column, all the 2's etc.etc.

I've been using this formula to do this:
=SUMPRODUCT((ISNUMBER(SEARCH("||"&1&"||","||"&A1:A9&"||"))+0))

My dilemma now is that I need to filter this by using a database formula of some sort and add criteria. If these were single numbers I'd use a formula such as =DCOUNT(A1:D9,1,G1:G2) where G1:G2 is my criteria range.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a database formula I can use that would do the same thing as my SUMPRODUCT formula above?

Again, any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

[Aladin Akyurek]

On 2002-03-25 13:21, Jennn wrote:
Hi all. Any help is greatly appreciated on this:

I'm working with a database consisting of one and two digit numbers, if more than one number, it is separated by the || characters.

One column of the database looks something like this:

DATA
1
1||2
2
1||2||3||4||5||6
1||2||3||4||5||7
1||2||3||4||5||6||8
1||2||3||4||5||6||9

To do my analysis, I needed to count all the 1's in this column, all the 2's etc.etc.

I've been using this formula to do this:
=SUMPRODUCT((ISNUMBER(SEARCH("||"&1&"||","||"&A1:A9&"||"))+0))

My dilemma now is that I need to filter this by using a database formula of some sort and add criteria. If these were single numbers I'd use a formula such as =DCOUNT(A1:D9,1,G1:G2) where G1:G2 is my criteria range.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a database formula I can use that would do the same thing as my SUMPRODUCT formula above?

Again, any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

I don't think a d-function can do what the above SUMPRODUCT formula is doing. Is there any particular reason you want a d-function?

Aladin