Sorting Version Number with multiple decimal points formatted as text

Hi pchilton,

Do the following steps on advance query editor:

• Add a custom column based on Version number
• Split the new column by Delimiter "."
• Add a new custom column with the following code:

Text.PadStart ([Valid.1], 2, "0") & "." &
Text.PadStart ([Valid.2], 2, "0") & "." &
Text.PadStart ([Valid.3], 2, "0") & "." &
Text.PadStart ([Valid.4], 2, "0")

• Sort by new column
• Delete Columns created with split delimiter

See below the M Code for a Query editor so you can replicate and look at what I did.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtIz0DM00DNQitWBcIz1DA2ROEZGcI4JkioTPWM42xIkHgsA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Version = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Version", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Valid", each [Version]),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Added Custom", "Valid", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(".", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Valid.1", "Valid.2", "Valid.3", "Valid.4"}),
    #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Split Column by Delimiter", "Sort_Version", each Text.PadStart ([Valid.1], 2, "0") & "." &
Text.PadStart ([Valid.2], 2, "0") & "." &
Text.PadStart ([Valid.3], 2, "0") & "." &
Text.PadStart ([Valid.4], 2, "0")),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom1",{"Valid.1", "Valid.2", "Valid.3", "Valid.4"}),
    #"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(#"Removed Columns",{{"Sort_Version", Order.Ascending}})
in
    #"Sorted Rows"

I assumed that you only go to 2 numbers in each part of the Version that why the Padding of the text for all columns is 2.

Regards,

MFelix

Hi pchilton,

On the desktop choose the original column Version and the:

• Modeling
• Sort By Column

In this option select the new Version column to sort the first one by this new one as you can see below the values are sort by default by the sort column.

Regards,

MFelix