Question

i have a dataset that looks like this

id, value1,value2,value3,value4,value5...value200 (i am showing only 5 but solution needs to accomodate 200 values)
a, 10,4,2,0,0
b, 23,0,0,2,0
c, 0,2,4,0,0
d, 0,0,0,1,0

i would like to return the COUNT of how many values for each row, have ONLY zeros on the tails.

for the above data it would be:

3
4
2
1

the solution can either be c# or excel (formula, not vba)

thank you so much for your help./guidance and please let me know if i am not being clear

Answer 1

here is the solution i thought of:

1. concatonate the row of values
2. convert to a number (this will get rid of beginning zeros)
3. take mid() of the cell, ending at the starting position of first 0 (this will get rid of trailing 0’s)
4. get length of final string (this will yield exactly the result needed)