Google Spreadsheet, filter doesn't allow wildcards? How to countif multiple columns with wildcards?

Question

When I do:

B         C
223 herp
223 herp
3   herp
223 derp
223 herp,derp

=countif(C:C, \"*herp*\")

I correctly get 4.

When I do

Answer 1

FILTER doesn't support wildcards, no. You need to do something like:

=COUNT(FILTER(B:B,B:B=223,SEARCH("herp",C:C)))

or

=COUNT(FILTER(B:B,B:B=223,REGEXMATCH(C:C,"herp")))

Alternatively, in the new version of Sheets, COUNTIFS is supported:

=COUNTIFS(B:B,223,C:C,"*herp*")