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senthil_venkat
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5 years ago
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Split Text into multiple columns

Hi Guys, I have an data where one specific column "Total Duration" which has the data combined with days, hours and minutes in one field, as shown below.    Is there any way to convert this data to ...
  • mahoneypat's avatar
    5 years ago

    Please see the M code below for how to do this by extracting the numbers (from end of input since not all rows have Days value).  To see how it works, just create a blank query, go to Advanced Editor, and replace the text there with the M code below.  It results in columns for Days, Hours, and Minutes, along with a Total Duration column, and a total minutes column.

     

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlNwSawsVjA0V/DILy0qVjAyUPDNzCstSS1WitUhKG2EJm1oQYq0BVTaFCptYoZN2tgUm4vMoHpMsbrXyBhmowmKNNwqQ0sSxU2JEjdC85Eh9uDCIW0IkkbIWpAgSZowefbEAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}),
        #"Inserted Text Between Delimiters" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Minutes", each Text.BetweenDelimiters([Column1], " ", " ", {1, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0), type text),
        #"Inserted Text Between Delimiters1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted Text Between Delimiters", "Hours", each Text.BetweenDelimiters([Column1], " ", " ", {3, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0), type text),
        #"Inserted Text Before Delimiter" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted Text Between Delimiters1", "Days", each Text.BeforeDelimiter([Column1], " ", {4, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text),
        #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Inserted Text Before Delimiter",{{"Minutes", Int64.Type}, {"Hours", Int64.Type}, {"Days", Int64.Type}}),
        #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type1",null,0,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Days"}),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Value", "Duration", each #duration([Days]+0,[Hours],[Minutes],0)),
        #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom",{{"Duration", type duration}}),
        #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type2", "Total Minutes", each Duration.TotalMinutes([Duration])),
        #"Changed Type3" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom1",{{"Total Minutes", Int64.Type}})
    in
        #"Changed Type3"

     

    If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

    Regards,

    Pat

  • CNENFRNL's avatar
    5 years ago

    My logic is intuitive, first substitute Days/Hours/Minutes with 1440/60/1 respectively; then sum it up.

    Pls refer to the following M code,

    let
        Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
        #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(Source,"Days","1440",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Text"}),
        #"Replaced Value1" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value","Hours","60",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Text"}),
        #"Replaced Value2" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value1","Minutes","1",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Text"}),
        Custom1 = Table.TransformColumns(#"Replaced Value2", {"Text", each List.Transform(Text.Split(_, " "), Number.From)}),
        Custom2 = Table.TransformColumns(Custom1, {"Text", each
            let
                D = _{0}*_{1},
                h = _{2}?*_{3}?,
                H = if h=null then 0 else h,
                m = _{4}?*_{5}?,
                M = if m=null then 0 else m,
                span = D+H+M
            in
                span
            })
    in
        Custom2