Question

For example:

DATA COLUMN: 23 TO 26, 40, 22, 7, 27 TO 28, 49, 50 TO 51, 48, 136, 169, 190 TO 192, 17 TO 22 AND NIL

*includes individual numbers, number range and word.

I have these datas as shown above in each individual cell, how do I come up with a formula that sums up all the total number of values?

I need to do some updating of datas.

I am currently using a formula provided by Jerry Beaucaire:

=ROWS(INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1," - ",":")," TO ", ":")))

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this formula based on JMAX's approach

=SUM(IF(ISERR(FIND("TO",A1:A6)),ISNUMBER(A1:A6)+0,MID(A1:A6,FIND("TO",A1:A6)+2,9)-LEFT(A1:A6,FIND("TO",A1:A6)-1)+1))

confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

assumes delimiter is “TO” as per your examples

Revised approach:

FIND is case-sensitive, SEARCH is not, so to allow “TO” or “to” you can change all instances of FIND to SEARCH. The following version will therefore cope with either of those, blank cells, cells with “Nil”, cells with entries such as 23, 24, 27 (counted as 3) or 11 & 99 (counted as 2) or cells with a single number like 33 (counted as 1)

=SUM(IF(ISERR(SEARCH("TO",A1:A6)),IF((A1:A6="Nil")+(A1:A6=""),0,LEN(A1:A6)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A6,",",""),"&",""))+1),MID(A1:A6,SEARCH("TO",A1:A6)+2,9)-LEFT(A1:A6,SEARCH("TO",A1:A6)-1)+1))

Revision no 2

Assuming data in A1:A22

=SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(LEFT(A1:A22)+0),IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("to",A1:A22)),MID(A1:A22,SEARCH("TO",A1:A22)+2,9)-LEFT(A1:A22,SEARCH("TO",A1:A22)-1)+1,LEN(A1:A22)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A22,",",""),"&",""))+1)))