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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Doing a search against multiple strings

Hi,   The below should be relatively easy to fix in DAX but somehow I do not succeed.   For simplicity sake here is a dummy fact table:   ID Content Required Column 1 Text1,te...
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    amitchandak
    4 years ago

    Anonymous , A new column like

     

    Switch( True() ,
    containsstring([Content],"text2") && containsstring([Content],"text2") , "2plus4",
    containsstring([Content],"text1") && containsstring([Content],"text5") , "1plus5",
    containsstring([Content],"text2"), "text2",
    "Other")

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

amitchandak thanks, this is brilliant.

Do you have any idea why "?" or "/?" is not working for my "text2" while if I use any other combination of characters, it works? No big deal (I created a workaround) but just curious.

Kind regatds & thanks again,
(Worst)Kees