topic Re: If statement with wildcards in DAX Commands and Tips

If statement with wildcards

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 14:37:28 GMT

Hello,

I have about 15 years of data broken out into 4 categorys based on season FA, WI, SP, SU. I am attempting to label each label as Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer. The data looks like 2020/FA, 2019/FA, 2018/FA...etc for all seasons.

Currently I am doing an endless if by IF(Table = "2020/FA", "Fall", IF (Table = "2020/SP", Spring, IF....

This is turning into a very long and repetative processs and I was experimenting with wildcards (*,?) trying to be able to get,

IF(Table = "????/FA", "Fall", IF (Table = "????/SP", Spring, IF...., but neither * or ? was getting picked up as a wildcard.

Should the wildcard characters be outside of the "" or am I having my logic wrong any help is appricated, does not have to be an if statement.

Re: If statement with wildcards

irfanelevated — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:43:42 GMT

Hello,

You can try the Containsstring function.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/containsstring-function-dax

Thanks,

Irfan

Re: If statement with wildcards

colacan — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:17:05 GMT

Anonymous Hi, you can try below CALCUALTE COLUMN;

Season =

SWITCH(True,

SEARCH("SP",TABLE[YearSeason],,BLANK())>0,"SPRING",

SEARCH("SU",TABLE[YearSeason],,BLANK())>0,"SUMMER",

SEARCH("FA",TABLE[YearSeason],,BLANK())>0,"FALL",

SEARCH("WI",TABLE[YearSeason],,BLANK())>0,"WINTER", BLANK()

)

Thanks

Please mark as soluntion if this helped.