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Column Manipulation
- 5 years ago
That format isn't the best for analysis but here's one way to do it in the query editor with a column that has a custom list of records. To see how it works, just create a blank query, open the Advanced Editor and replace the text there with the M code below.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8k3MTlXSUfLIz0tJBNLBiTkgrqGRsVKsTrRSZGpiEZBrZGBoBpIsSSwByYZEKMXGAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t, Column3 = _t, Column4 = _t]), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each {[Col1 = [Column1], Col2 = [Column2]], [Col1 = [Column3], Col2 = [Column4]]}), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Custom"}), #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Custom"), #"Expanded Custom1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Custom", "Custom", {"Col1", "Col2"}, {"Col1", "Col2"}) in #"Expanded Custom1"Pat
Here's a way to do it but splitting the table into a list of 2 row tables:
Custom2 = Table.Split(Source, 2),
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Custom2, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Custom", each Table.Combine({Table.FirstN([Column1], 2)[[Column1], [Column2]], Table.LastN(Table.RenameColumns([Column1][[Column3], [Column4]], {{"Column3", "Column1"}, {"Column4", "Column2"}}), 2) [[Column1], [Column2]]})),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1"}),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Custom", {"Column1", "Column2"}, {"Custom.Column1", "Custom.Column2"})
in
#"Expanded Custom"
--Nate