How to Count the Number of a Specific Character in a Cell with Excel VBA

Question

I have a number of items in cells that are separated by dashes. I\'m trying to normalize the database by splitting rows so that each row contains only one entry. How do you

Answer 1

Using hint from ron's function above I've created this formula and it worked fine :

=LEN(A1) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1, "-", ""))