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ToddMate
Helper II
2 years ago
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Delimiter in second column - Same table

Hi All,

I need help, in short, I have 2 columns,Queue and Reason within my Sales table. There are multiple values in each column seperated by the ; delimiter.

I am wanting to return the value that is in the same position in both the Queue and Reason columns where the search value is "Sales".
For example, i want to return the first delimited value in the Reason column where "Sales" is the first value from the Queue column.

See examples below. Appreciate any assistance. 



Cheers Todd

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Hi ToddMate ,

     

    According to your description, here are my steps you can follow as a solution.

    (1) We can create a calculated column.

    Result = 
VAR _a1 = SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(('Table'[Queue])," ",""),";","|")
var _a2=
MINX (
    FILTER (
        GENERATESERIES ( 1, PATHLENGTH ( _a1 ), 1 ),  
        PATHITEM ( _a1, [Value], TEXT ) = "Sales"  
    ),
    [Value]
)
var _a3= SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(('Table'[Reason])," ",""),";","|")
RETURN  PATHITEM ( _a3, _a2, INTEGER )

    (2) Then the result is as follows.

    Best Regards,

    Neeko Tang

    If this post  helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly. 

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  • Ashish_Mathur's avatar
    Ashish_Mathur
    Super User
    2 years ago

    Hi,

    Another approach could be that of Power Query.  Therein, we can create one row for each item and then filter on Sales.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    2 years ago

    Hi ToddMate ,

     

    According to your description, here are my steps you can follow as a solution.

    (1) We can create a calculated column.

    Result = 
VAR _a1 = SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(('Table'[Queue])," ",""),";","|")
var _a2=
MINX (
    FILTER (
        GENERATESERIES ( 1, PATHLENGTH ( _a1 ), 1 ),  
        PATHITEM ( _a1, [Value], TEXT ) = "Sales"  
    ),
    [Value]
)
var _a3= SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(('Table'[Reason])," ",""),";","|")
RETURN  PATHITEM ( _a3, _a2, INTEGER )

    (2) Then the result is as follows.

    Best Regards,

    Neeko Tang

    If this post  helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.