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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Remove Text from Specific Column

Hi , I am new to Power BI. Could any one please guide how to remove "Text " from Alpha numeric coulmns. I want to create another column only with numbers to get average of it.
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    v-frfei-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    To create a custom column as below.

     

    Text.Select([Minutes], {"0".."9"})

     

    M code for your reference:

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlLwzcwrLUktVoqNBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Minutes = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Minutes", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Text.Select([Minutes], {"0".."9"})),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom",{{"Custom", type number}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"
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v-frfei-msft
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

To create a custom column as below.

 

Text.Select([Minutes], {"0".."9"})

 

M code for your reference:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlLwzcwrLUktVoqNBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Minutes = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Minutes", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Text.Select([Minutes], {"0".."9"})),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom",{{"Custom", type number}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"