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pkumarsharma
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3 years ago
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Text Splitter

I want to split text by number of characters but if at that certain position the word is not complete then take it to the end of the word. 

 

TextSplit by Number of Characters 25Increase number of characters to 26 to complete the wordNext 25 Characters to start at position 27 and go up by 24 to complete the next word before splitting
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. The right to education is enshrined in article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human RiThe United Nations GeneraThe United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 
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  • slorin's avatar
    slorin
    3 years ago

    Add a new column 

    Splitter.SplitTextByPositions( 
    Table.Group(
    Table.FromColumns({{0}&Text.PositionOf([Text]," ",Occurrence.All)},{"Position"}),
    {"Position"},
    {},
    GroupKind.Local,
    (x,y)=>if y[Position]>(x[Position]+25) then 1 else 0)
    [Position])
    ([Text])

     

     Stéphane

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  • slorin's avatar
    slorin
    Super User
    3 years ago

    Add a new column 

    Splitter.SplitTextByPositions( 
    Table.Group(
    Table.FromColumns({{0}&Text.PositionOf([Text]," ",Occurrence.All)},{"Position"}),
    {"Position"},
    {},
    GroupKind.Local,
    (x,y)=>if y[Position]>(x[Position]+25) then 1 else 0)
    [Position])
    ([Text])

     

     Stéphane

    • pkumarsharma's avatar
      pkumarsharma
      Regular Visitor
      3 years ago

      Hi Stephane

      Note: in above 25 is replaced with 250. I am trying to build a Twitter auto post generator which is limited by 280 characters in due to character limit of Twitter.

      The above custom column produces a list. When I expand it to rows and look at the lenght of the text in some cases it goes over 250. is it possible to limit it to 250 or less