count the number of times a substring is found within a date range in excel

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Published on 2012-12-18T21:13:59Z Indexed on 2012/12/18 23:05 UTC
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I have a spreadsheet that contains test data. column A has the test name and column B contains the test date. I want to count the number of times that the string Rerun is found within a certain date range.

For example

A                B
test1            11/2/2012
test2            11/7/2012
test1_Rerun_1    11/10/2012
test2_Rerun_1    11/16/2012

I am doing a weekly report so want to show how many tests had to be rerun in a particular week. so in the above example:

week ending 11/2/12 would return 0 (look for dates >10/26/12 and <=11/2/12 with substring "Rerun")

week ending 11/9/12 would return 0 (look for dates >11/2/12 and <= 11/9/12 with substring "Rerun")

week ending 11/16/12 would return 2 (look for dates >11/9/12 and <=11/16/12 with substring "Rerun")

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