Countif or Sumif or Match? Counting exponents that are labels but weird results

[montyfern]

Good Day All!

Close but no cigar? VBA? Pivots? I have a list with labels where I need to count every instance of ^ or exponents that's embedded in individual cells. It will constantly change. I tried the following formulas: [TABLE="width: 64"]
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[TD="align: right"]=COUNTIFS(A2:D2,"*^*") =SUMIF(A2:D2,"*^*",$E$2:$E$11)
=MATCH("^",A2:D11,0)-MATCH("^",A2:D11,0)-3 which gives the dreaded N/A error.
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For example:
[TABLE="width: 576"]
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[TD]SO
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[TD]Support
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[TD]Type of Meeting
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[TD]Mechanic
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[TD]Count
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[TD]Total
[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Reginald Smith^2
[/TD]
[TD]B. Lawford ^
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[TD]F2F
[/TD]
[TD]R13
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Patricia Jones ^1
[/TD]
[TD]P. Redland
[/TD]
[TD]Tele.
[/TD]
[TD]U19
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Sidney Poitier ^2
[/TD]
[TD]P. Newton
[/TD]
[TD]F2F
[/TD]
[TD]R02
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Elizabeth Taylor ^2
[/TD]
[TD]E. Hernandez
[/TD]
[TD]Tele.
[/TD]
[TD]U19
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Paul Newman ^2
[/TD]
[TD]S. DeLorean
[/TD]
[TD]Tele.
[/TD]
[TD]R13
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Robert Redford
[/TD]
[TD]T. Manilow
[/TD]
[TD]F2F
[/TD]
[TD]U19
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Cecily Tyson ^2
[/TD]
[TD]J. Johnson
[/TD]
[TD]F2F
[/TD]
[TD]U19
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Robert Redford
[/TD]
[TD]W. Washington
[/TD]
[TD]Tele.
[/TD]
[TD]R02
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Paul Newman ^2
[/TD]
[TD]K. Kowalski
[/TD]
[TD]F2F
[/TD]
[TD]U19 ^
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Barry Jones ^3
[/TD]
[TD]S. DeLorean ^
[/TD]
[TD]Tele. ^
[/TD]
[TD]R13
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Aggregate Sum
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]12
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]12
[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Then, I have simple sums which both denote 12 as you can see. Thanks so much.
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[thisoldman]

You can post the file, after properly anonymizing the data, to a cloud service and post the share link here.

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[thisoldman]

After some off-the forums discussion I found I had an error in the carat count formula.

Also, there can be either one entry or two comma separated entries for the mechanism. If two entries are present the points must be summed together. A further complication is that a mechanism code may appear in more than one points list.

To make the lookup lists dynamic, I used three single-column structured tables in columns L, M, and N. The three-point and the five-point table extend beyond what I show here.

Book1
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N
1	SRO	Support	Type of Meeting	Mechanism	1stMech	2ndMech	Caret Pts	MechPts1	MechPts2	SUM() Total Pts		1 Point	3 Points	5 Points
2	Alex Smith	D. Alighieri	F2F	B52	B52		0	1	0	1		A20	Y07	B17
3	Blair Johnson	J. Baldwin^	Tele.^	B17, Y07	B17	Y07	2	6	3	11		A26	P51	JU88
4	Chris Williams ^3	J. Robinson	F2F^	B17,B17	B17	B17	4	6	6	16		AR2		ME210
5	Drew Brown	H. Godwineson	Tele.	Y07, B17	Y07	B17	0	3	6	9		B17		P30
6	Emerson Jones	M. Curie	Tele. ^	JU88, Y07	JU88	Y07	1	5	3	9		B23		P38
7	Frankie Miller	H. de Soto ^	F2F	AR2	AR2		1	1	0	2		B52		P50
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Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
E2	=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(D2, ",", REPT(" ", 20)), 10))
F2	=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(",", D2)), TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(D2, E2 & ",", "")), "")
G2	=COUNTIF(A2:D2, "*^*") + ISNUMBER(--RIGHT(A2)) * IFERROR(--RIGHT(A2, LEN(A2) - SEARCH("^", A2)) - 1, 0)
H2	=ISNUMBER(MATCH(E2, x1Tbl[1 Point], 0)) + 3 * ISNUMBER(MATCH(E2, x3Tbl[3 Points], 0)) + 5 * ISNUMBER(MATCH(E2, x5Tbl[5 Points], 0))
I2	=ISNUMBER(MATCH(F2, x1Tbl[1 Point], 0)) + 3 * ISNUMBER(MATCH(F2, x3Tbl[3 Points], 0)) + 5 * ISNUMBER(MATCH(F2, x5Tbl[5 Points], 0))
J2	=SUM(G2:I2)