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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Extracting unique values with a condition

Hi,   I have a column with text that looks something like this:   Fixed-Fixed-Postpaid-Fixed-OMB-OMB   Is there a formula that will return only unique values in between the dashes (-)?    Req...
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    tamerj1
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 
    Apologies, I was outside the office when I shared the solution. 

    Yes this is a calculated column but its seems that you have some blank cells. Just modify as follows.

     

    NewColumn =
VAR String = TableName[ColumnName]
VAR Items =
    SUBSTITUTE ( String, "-", "|" )
VAR Length =
    COALESCE ( PATHLENGTH ( Items ), 1 )
VAR T1 =
    GENERATESERIES ( 1, Length, 1 )
VAR T2 =
    ADDCOLUMNS ( T1, "@Item", PATHITEM ( Items, [Value] ) )
VAR T3 =
    DISTINCT ( SELECTCOLUMNS ( T2, "@@Item", [@Item] ) )
RETURN
    CONCATENATEX ( T3, [@@Item], "-", [@@Item], ASC )

     

     

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tamerj1
Community Champion
4 years ago

Hi Anonymous 
Apologies, I was outside the office when I shared the solution. 

Yes this is a calculated column but its seems that you have some blank cells. Just modify as follows.

 

NewColumn =
VAR String = TableName[ColumnName]
VAR Items =
    SUBSTITUTE ( String, "-", "|" )
VAR Length =
    COALESCE ( PATHLENGTH ( Items ), 1 )
VAR T1 =
    GENERATESERIES ( 1, Length, 1 )
VAR T2 =
    ADDCOLUMNS ( T1, "@Item", PATHITEM ( Items, [Value] ) )
VAR T3 =
    DISTINCT ( SELECTCOLUMNS ( T2, "@@Item", [@Item] ) )
RETURN
    CONCATENATEX ( T3, [@@Item], "-", [@@Item], ASC )

 

 

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Thank you so much, you have made my day/week/month! I have been scouring the internet for almost a week and have not been able to find a solution.