Looking for numerical values stored in a hyphenated string

canadianbacon357

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Hello,

Apologies if this topic has already been answered; I searched and could not find a similar solution.

I have a large amount of data (222,000+ rows) which contain values that are a hyphenated string in each cell, stored as text. An example is shown below. Not all of the rows contain the same values - ranging from 001 to 999.

357-361373-378381-389394-399581-999

I would like to know what the best way is to find or filter these rows for a specific value, i.e. 385.

Not sure whether a =COUNTIF or =INDEX function would work here.

Thank you!
 

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