Count rows with not empty value

Question

In a Google Spreadsheet: How can I count the rows of a given area that have a value? All hints about this I found up to now lead to formulas that do count the rows which have a not empty content (including formula), but a cell with

=IF(1=2;"";"")  // Shows an empty cell

is counted as well.

What is the solution to this simple task?

Answer 1

A simpler solution that works for me:

=COUNTIFS(A:A;"<>"&"")

It counts both numbers, strings, dates, etc that are not empty

Answer 2

For me, none of the answers worked for ranges that include both virgin cells and cells that are empty based on a formula (e.g. =IF(1=2;"";""))

What solved it for me is this:

=COUNTA(FILTER(range, range <> ""))

Answer 3

=counta(range) 

• counta: "Returns a count of the number of values in a dataset"

  Note: CountA considers "" to be a value. Only cells that are blank (press delete in a cell to blank it) are not counted.

  Google support: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093991

• countblank: "Returns the number of empty cells in a given range"

  Note: CountBlank considers both blank cells (press delete to blank a cell) and cells that have a formula that returns "" to be empty cells.

  Google Support: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093403

If you have a range that includes formulae that result in "", then you can modify your formula from

=counta(range)

to:

=Counta(range) - Countblank(range)

EDIT: the function is countblank, not countblanks, the latter will give an error.

Answer 4

Make another column that determines if the referenced cell is blank using the function "CountBlank". Then use count on the values created in the new "CountBlank" column.

Answer 5

Solved using a solution i found googling by Yogi Anand: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/docs/3qsR2m-1Xx8/sSU6Z6NYLOcJ

The example below counts the number of non-empty rows in the range A3:C, remember to update both ranges in the formula with your range of interest.

=ArrayFormula(SUM(SIGN(MMULT(LEN(A3:C), TRANSPOSE(SIGN(COLUMN(A3:C)))))))

Also make sure to avoid circular dependencies, it will happen if you for example count the number of non-empty rows in A:C and place this formula in the A or C column.

Answer 6

You can define a custom function using Apps Script (Tools > Script editor) called for example numNonEmptyRows :

function numNonEmptyRows(range) {
  Logger.log("inside");
  Logger.log(range);
  if (range && range.constructor === Array) {
    return range.map(function(a){return a.join('')}).filter(Boolean).length
  }
  else {
    return range ? 1 : 0;
  }
}

And then use it in a cell like this =numNonEmptyRows(A23:C25) to count the number of non empty rows in the range A23:C25;