google sheets - Count rows with not empty value

Question

In a Google Spreadsheet: How can I count the rows of a given area that have a value? All hints about this I found up to now lead to formulas that do count the rows which have a not empty content (including formula), but a cell with

=IF(1=2;"";"")  // Shows an empty cell

is counted as well.

What is the solution to this simple task?

Answer 1

I just used =COUNTIF(Range, "<>") and it counted non-empty cells for me.