How to search a column of names and make a decision based on whether the name has special characters on the end

Must be able to identify special characters on end, specifically *,**,***, +, ++.
Must make a decision on whether there is one, two, three asterisks and one or two plus symbols. For example:

Alston*
Jordon**
Baker***
Haskel+
Mike++
Tom

e.g. * might mean use cell X15, ** might mean use cel X16, etc.

Would like to use formulas.