thanks for the fast reply.
what I was searching is a 2D array like this:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/vba/count-repeated-unique-strings-values/m-p/10851492#M105864
here is the VBA code used:
Sub SplitArrSource()
ArrSource = "A1,B2,C1; A2,B2,C1; A3,B2,C2; A4,B2,C2;A5,B2,C3; A6,B2,C4...