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maalsan
Advocate I
4 years ago
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Find multiple substring DAX CONTAINSSTRING

Hello everyone,   I need to find if the substrings "house", "home", "dewelling" appear in a long string column. Using CONTAINSSTRING I am able to find each word at a time- house= CONTAINSSTRING(tab...
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  • maalsan's avatar
    maalsan
    4 years ago

    That's weird. It still gives me an error message. 

    I found the solution to be simply:

    house= CONTAINSSTRING(table1[column1], "house" ) || CONTAINSSTRING(table1[column1], "home" ) || CONTAINSSTRING(table1[column1], "dewelling" )

     Without the need of IF statements. 

     

    Thanks!

RajaCSN's avatar
RajaCSN
Advocate II
4 years ago

Hi maalsan,

 

Assuming that you have table called "String" where Description is your column header; You have another table called Keyword, that contains a column header Keyword.

 

You can load both the tables to PowerBI and then for the String Table, you can create a calculated column as below:

 

 

Is this providing a solution for your query? If "yes" kindly confirm.

 

Request other experienced users to add value to my suggestion.

 

Best Regards,

 

C.S.N. Raja

 

 

Piotrrekk's avatar
Piotrrekk
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Hi RajaCSN,
I found your solution very helful, honestly speaking it's mindblowing!
Trying to adjust it to my needs, if I put Keyword column in a slicer giving user option to select one or multiple values. How to adjust DAX so it's still working?
Curent solution is taking all values no meter what is selected in slicer.

  • RajaCSN's avatar
    RajaCSN
    Advocate II
    3 years ago

    Yes, that is a limitation. Let me check if your requirement can be done by me or else we can seek assistance from other experienced users in this community.

    • Piotrrekk's avatar
      Piotrrekk
      Frequent Visitor
      3 years ago

      Thanks RajaCSN ,
      Initialy it sould like simple request, but so many colequest I reached were not able to assist.