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Value Function cutting off my data
I have a column of type Text which contains both text and numeric entries. For example, one entry is "BBB" and another is "0.015421564"
I want to create a new column of decimal type to extract the numeric values from this column, but the VALUE() function is not maintaining all of the decimal places and I need to keep it as precise as possible.
Any suggestions?
Anonymous in PQ change the column type to decimal number and you will see the error where the value is text, and in the next step, replace error with null value and that will do it.
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Anonymous in PQ change the column type to decimal number and you will see the error where the value is text, and in the next step, replace error with null value and that will do it.
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Anonymous it will be easier if you strip off alphabets in the power query and then keep the number only and keep the decimal value. Do you have a pattern of how the values are stored in this column?
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parry2k I'm not sure what you mean by pattern.
Anonymous how does the value look like in this column? Can you paste some sample data?
Anonymous seems like some rows have text values and others have numbers but none of the rows contains text & numbers, is this correct?