Note that the fourth occurrence of space is replaced with "~". Which ultimately gives us the string " My name is anthony~gonsalvis. SUBSTITUTE (A2,C2,"~",D2): This part resolves to SUBSTITUTE (" My name is anthony gonsalvis. As we know the SUBSTITUTE function of Excel replaces the given occurrence of a text in string with the given text. This returns the exact positions (19) of the mentioned occurrence (4) of the space character in the string. Write this formula in cell E2 and drag it down. In the adjacent cell I want to get the position of these occurrences of the characters.
In D2, D3, and D4 we have mentioned the occurrence of the character. In cell C2, C3, and C4 we have mentioned the characters that we want to search in the strings. Here we have some strings in range A2:A4. Example: Find the Second, Third and Nth Occurrence of Given Characters in the Strings. Now that we are familiar with the formula and its argument let's use it in an example to understand how it works. Occurrence: It is the number of the occurrence of the character in the string. Ĭharacter: It is the character whose occurrence you want to search in the string. String: This is the string in which you want to search for the occurrence of character. You can use any character or symbol that you are sure will not appear in the string you are going to search. "~": This is a special character that will not appear in the string. Generic Formula for finding the position of the Nth occurrence of a character = SEARCH ("~", SUBSTITUTE (string,character,"~",occurrence)) In this article, we will learn how to find the position of a Nth occurrence of a character in a string in Excel. They need help to find the second, third or Nth occurrence of a character in Excel. But if we want to find the second occurrence of a character in excel, both functions fail to do so. To find the first occurrence of a character in Excel we use the FIND of SEARCH function in Excel.
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