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prabhatnath
Advocate III
2 years agoSplit a Text column by delimiter multiple combinations - mQuery
Hi Friends, I have a table that is loaded into Power BI and has a column as "Cycles" and has text data as below. And I wanted to add another column "FY Quarter" during the data load steps using m...
- 2 years ago
Hi prabhatnath ,
Try the following custom column in the query editor:
if Text.Contains([Cycles], "\Cycle-") then Text.BetweenDelimiters([Cycles], "\", "\Cycle-", {1, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0) else Text.AfterDelimiter([Cycles], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd})Here's the complete M Code
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCijKz0pNLomJcYs0MoaQuoEmMTHOlck5qbqGSjpKUCGlWB1Cqo3wqDaByGGRgJC6gVC7wCzcimB2GZOk2oQk1abEqDaCKzLCowhmpBlJqs2RVccCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Cycles = _t, #"FY Quarter" = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Cycles", type text}, {"FY Quarter", type text}}), Custom = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if Text.Contains([Cycles], "\Cycle-") then Text.BetweenDelimiters([Cycles], "\", "\Cycle-", {1, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0) else Text.AfterDelimiter([Cycles], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text) in Custom - 2 years ago
plse try this
try List.Select( Text.Split([Cycles],"\"),(x)=> Text.Contains(x,"-Q", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)){0} otherwise List.Select( Text.Split([Cycles],"\"),(x)=> Text.Contains(x,"FY", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)){0}
Ahmedx
Super User
2 years agoplse try this
try
List.Select(
Text.Split([Cycles],"\"),(x)=> Text.Contains(x,"-Q", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)){0} otherwise List.Select(
Text.Split([Cycles],"\"),(x)=> Text.Contains(x,"FY", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)){0}