Originally Posted by kebo

a way to count occurences of one string inside of another:

Dim S As String
Dim position As Long
Dim SearchString As String
Dim count As Long

S = " This is a great sentence. It is not very long, but is also quite lame. It is however unimportant and is not very exciting"
SearchString = "is"

count = 0
position = InStr(S, SearchString)
Do Until position = 0
count = count + 1
position = InStr(position + 1, S, SearchString)
Loop
debug.print count
End Sub

its not fully tested but seems to work
kevin