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Extracting Text from a text string
Apologies if this has been asked before, but as a newbie to all things Power BI this is proving a bit of a pain.
The data I'm working with needs a certain bit of tidying before it's used. One of the the things that is proving difficult is extracting a certain text string from another - it's easy enough to do in Excel/Access but I'm strugging with it here.
What I have is this....
| Activity | CR |
| BAU SBCR811c-i Test | SBCR811c-i |
| R3 SBCR1022b Design | SBCR1022b |
| R3 SBCR1227 Requirements Gathering | SBCR1227 |
| BAU SBCR811c-i | SBCR811c-i |
and in Excel =IFERROR(LEFT(RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)- FIND("SBCR",A2,1)+1), FIND(" ",RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)- FIND("SBCR",A2,1)+1))),RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)- FIND("SBCR",A2,1)+1)) does the trick
I've tried doing it as the data is imported but it gets messey pretty quickly.
I've also tried adding a measure using ....
IsCR = if(FIND("SBCR",[Activity],1,-1)>0, RIGHT([Activity],LEN([Activity])-FIND("SBCR",[Activity],1,-1)), "")
This gets me the first part but I'm struggling to knock off the text string at the end.
Unfortunately I can't ask that the data is aperated before I get it..
Regards,
Tony
Hi tonyenglish,
You want to extract substring with the beginning of “SBCR” from [Activity], right?
Click Query Editor->Transform->Split Column like belew.
Column [Activity.2] is what you want.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
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- v-yuta-msftCommunity Support
Hi tonyenglish,
You want to extract substring with the beginning of “SBCR” from [Activity], right?
Click Query Editor->Transform->Split Column like belew.
Column [Activity.2] is what you want.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao