Google Spreadsheet Conditional Formatting Counting Commas

Question:

( by Aram Donabedian )

I was wondering if there was a way to assign conditional formatting based on the number of comma separators in a cell?  IE: A,=green B,C,=Blue D,E,F,=Yellow

The letter values won't always be fixed and will be different from cell to cell so I want the number of commas in the cell to be the condition.

Can I do that?
Thanks

Solution:

Have a look at the following animated screenshot:

Have a look at the following code:

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function onEdit(e) {
  condition();
};

function condition() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var s = ss.getActiveSheet();
  if(s.getName() == "Sheet1")
  {
    var cell = s.getActiveCell();
    var a1_Notation = cell.getA1Notation();
    if(a1_Notation=="A1") {
      var str = cell.getValue().toString();
      var count = str.split(",").length - 1;
      if(count==1) cell.setBackground("lightgreen");
      else if(count==2) cell.setBackground("blue");
      else if(count==3) cell.setBackground("yellow");
      else cell.setBackground("white");
    }
  }
};

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put the above code in your script editor and then whenever you edit on cell "A1" of sheet "Sheet1", this script will count the number of comma and place the color accordingly.


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