How to retrieve all occurences of a particular value within a string?

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I'm looking at an excel work-book with potential definitions for a column(upto 135) referenced from an adjacent sheet.

E.g. Sheet 1: Col C (values 0-134 defined in Sheet 2 )

Each row in Col C Sheet 1 may have any combination of the values separated by commas.

E.g. 0,1,8

Sheet 2 must maintain statistics of the occurence of each value. This is done using COUNTIF. The issue here is that COUNTIF doesn't handle an embedded value too well. When so done, the reference to '1' in the above example won't appear.

How can this be done without resorting to a sub-routine?

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