Sum of text within text

Kentman

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Just can't work this out! Got a string and want to get total number of occurances of a particular character within that string.
 

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If A1 contains the string to be searched, and the string you're searching for is "x":
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"x",""))
 
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Thxs. That finds the first occurance but how do I go on to get the position of all occurances of a character?
 
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