in a CSV string is there a way to know how many delimiters there are

[NiceMountain]

in a CSV string is there a way to know how many delimiters there are

for example
first,last,address,city

is there a way to know how many , are in the above string

[leinad31]

If there are commas nested in " then you can use Ubound(Split()) + 1 on one line to get column count.

You can also treat the CSV as an ADO datasource with appropriate connection string. http://www.carlprothman.net/Default.aspx?tabid=81 The connected ADO recordset object will have field count property.

[MartinLiss]

Const TEST = "one,two,three"
MsgBox Len(TEST) - Len(Replace(TEST, ",", ""))