Count occurances of a character in a cell

[GNB]

Hi All,

I have a character in a cell which separates the number of times a visitor has come to a website and where they came from.

What I am looking to do is count the number of those charatcters so that I can work out an average.

so for a string like the below
source1#20110903132829|source2-en#20110903173802
I would want 2 to be the result but for text like this
source1#20110904093001||source2#20110904140828
I would want 3 to be the answer

any ideas on how i do this?

thanks

 

[AlphaFrog]

<br /><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style=";">source1#20110903132829|source2-en#20110903173802</td><td style="text-align: right;background-color: #FFFF99;;">2</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style=";">source1#20110904093001||source2#20110904140828</td><td style="text-align: right;background-color: #FFFF99;;">3</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">B1</th><td style="text-align:left">=LEN(<font color="Blue">A1</font>)-LEN(<font color="Blue">SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Red">A1,"|",""</font>)</font>)+1</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">B2</th><td style="text-align:left">=LEN(<font color="Blue">A2</font>)-LEN(<font color="Blue">SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Red">A2,"|",""</font>)</font>)+1</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

 

[GNB]

Works perfectly thanks! Was driving me scatty!!!