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4 years ago

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Search for text among numeric values

Hello community. I need to solve one task. In collum have data that starts with numbers, then we have text, then again numbers, the goal is to select the text between two numbers and to insert it...

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tamerj1

4 years ago

Hi DimaMD
As promissed, here is the solution (No need for the letters table)

Text = 
VAR String = 'String Table'[String]
VAR StringLength = LEN ( String )
VAR T1 = SELECTCOLUMNS ( GENERATESERIES ( 0, 9, 1 ), "@Number", [Value] & "" )
VAR T2 = SELECTCOLUMNS ( GENERATESERIES ( 1, StringLength ), "@Index", [Value] )
VAR T3 = ADDCOLUMNS ( T2, "@StringLetters", MID ( String, [@Index], 1 ) )
VAR T4 = ADDCOLUMNS ( T3, "@TexLetters", IF ( NOT ( [@StringLetters] IN T1 ), LOWER ( [@StringLetters] ), "|" ) )
VAR T5 = 
    ADDCOLUMNS ( 
        T4, 
        "Text Letters", 
        VAR PreviousIndex = [@Index] - 1
        RETURN
            IF ( MAXX ( FILTER ( T4, [@Index] = PreviousIndex ), [@TexLetters] )  <> "|", [@TexLetters] ) )
VAR T6 = FILTER ( T5, [Text Letters] <> BLANK ( ) )
RETURN
    PATHITEM ( CONCATENATEX ( T6, [Text Letters] ), 2 )

tamerj1

Community Champion

3 years ago

Amy_Qc
Hi Amal,

Please refer to attached sample file with the solution. Please let me know if you face any trouble implementing the same on your actual data.

Output = 
VAR String = 'Table'[Input]
VAR Items = SUBSTITUTE ( String, " ", "|" )
VAR Length = PATHLENGTH ( Items )
VAR T1 = GENERATESERIES ( 0, 9, 1 )
VAR T2 = GENERATESERIES ( 1, Length, 1 )
VAR T3 = ADDCOLUMNS ( T2, "@Item", PATHITEM ( Items, [Value] ) )
VAR T4 = 
    FILTER ( 
        T3, 
        VAR T5 = FILTER ( T1, CONTAINSSTRING ( [@Item], [Value] ) )
        VAR Condition1 = NOT ISEMPTY ( T5 )
        VAR Condition2 = NOT ( CONTAINSSTRING ( [@Item], "-" ) )
        VAR Condition3 = NOT ( CONTAINSSTRING ( [@Item], "/" ) )
        RETURN
            Condition1 && Condition2 && Condition3
    )
VAR Digits = CONCATENATEX ( T4, [@Item] )
VAR Factor = 
    SWITCH ( 
        TRUE ( ),
        CONTAINSSTRING ( String, "K$" ), 1000,
        CONTAINSSTRING ( String, "M$" ), 1000000,
        CONTAINSSTRING ( String, "B$" ), 1000000000
    )
RETURN
    VALUE ( Digits ) * Factor