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How to find nth occurrence of character in Excel

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To find the nth occurrence of a character in a text string, you can use a formula based on the FIND and SUBSTITUTE functions.

Formula

=FIND(CHAR(160),SUBSTITUTE
(text,"@",CHAR(160),N))

Explanation

In the example shown, the formula in D5 is:

=FIND(CHAR(160),SUBSTITUTE
(B5,"@",CHAR(160),C5))

How this formula works

In this example we are looking for the nth occurrence of the “@” character.

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Working from the inside out, we first use the SUBSTITUTE function to replace the nth occurrence of “@” with CHAR(160):

SUBSTITUTE(B5,"@",CHAR(160),C5)

The SUBSTITUTE function has an optional 4th argument called instance number that can be used to specify the instance that should be replaced. This number comes from column C.

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SUBSTITUTE then replaces the nth occurrence of “@” with CHAR(160), which resolves to “†”. We use CHAR(160) because it won’t normally appear in text. You can use any character you know won’t exist in the text.

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Finally, the FIND character looks for CHAR(160) and returns the position.

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