How do I find the frequency of numbers in a group of data strings?

Question

I have a set of data strings and I want to find the frequency of each number occuring in a data string. How do I do this?
Here are the strings.
28-29-43-51-53 7
02-08-30-36-48 31
09-10-27-36-42 11
20-24-31-33-36 44
16-29-48-52-54 5
06-15-29-39-51 36
01-16-18-25-27 3
09-30-39-42-47 37

Answer 1

The first part is to "break out" the values from your strings.  Columns B thru G take care of this:
I assumed allvalues as 2 digits...
B2=VALUE(MID($A2, 3*(COLUMN()-2)+1, 2))
select B2 and fill to the right until column G
then select B2 thru G2 and fill down as needed.
For compactness of THIS presentation I added two additional columns for getting the Frequency... columns I and J.
Column I contains an counting value and J contains the frquency of the corresponding value in I (of the same row).
put a "1" in I2, a "2" in I3, then select both I1and I2, then grab (click and hold the little circle at the bottom right of the selection), and drag down until the value is the max number you expect (I assumed it was 99).
J2=COUNTIF(B:G, "="&I2)
select J2 and fill down