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How to create new column by extracting first two letter or first two number from another column

I have a  column Material . this column combined text and number value like below

 

Item No           material 

 1                      70.Y808

 1                      V0P8MC

 1                      10.0000

 1                      40.9JWH

 

I want to create new column name category this  extract first two letter from the material column

 

output like 

Item No           material         Categoey 

 1                      70.Y808            70

 1                      V0P8MC           V0

 1                      10.0000            10

 1                      40.9JWH           40

 

i have tired few of measure i am getting some  column blank .

 

Looking For support . Thanks in advance ..

 

 

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Jihwan_Kim
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Category CC =
LEFT(Data[material],2)

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Jihwan_Kim
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Category CC =
LEFT(Data[material],2)

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