String Searching - A replacement for CountIF

Hi all

This is likely simple and i'm over doing it - But please help.

I have a dataset, there's 1 row per application. 

There is a text string column for 'Region' which is annoyingly grouped whatever region the end user has selected, deliminated by a comma.

I need to be able to present the data by region with a sum of applications and costs. 

I have used search to identify if a string like "region 1" exists in a row and then gone onto use Switch true to identify where the search result is greater than 0. 

This works but only for the rows where the region is the first in the string value. e.g.

Region String = "Region 1, Region 2"

Switch Result = "Region 1" 

This is really frustrating. I have a look up table i can use, but given rows can have more than 1 region selected - I'm hitting my head against the wall.