Re: How can I count (from the left) the number of blank cells before the first non-blank cell?

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 22:26 +0100, axel stammler student hu-berlin de
wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I work in teaching and need this simple straightforward function. Despoite its simnplicity
> I have been looking in vain for a solution as the search terms are much too general. The
> manuals &c. mention lots of highly complex functions but none that could help me here.
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> result  col 1   col 2   col 3   col 4   col 5
> 2               11      7               8
> 1       13      12      11              10
> 4                               11      12
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> A couple of years agon I found that MATCH provided a way, possibly in combination with IF:
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> =match(FALSE,if(H4:DZ4=""),0)
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> Obviously this should work, too:
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> =match(FALSE,isblank(H4:DZ4),0)
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> The first formula worked before the Debian upgrade from Etch to Lenny, i.e. to version
> "1.8.3-5+lenny1", about a week ago; now it only returns "#N/A!", just like the second
> ones.

Try entering these formulae as array formulae (ctrl-shift-enter).

Andreas 
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