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thomas_coltrain
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Text Replace help

Hey,

I need assistance in removing "years" from the data output in a column.  The data comes in labeled as..

1 Year

2 Year

3 Year etc,

I need it to just display a # like

1

2

3

4 and so on

I tried the text.replace and kept getting an error 

 

Text.Replace([# of Years], {"Year", ""})

Thanks,

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

@thomas_coltrain 
Please use the following

1.png

Year Number = 
VAR String = Data[Year]
VAR NumberLength = SEARCH ( "Y", String, 1, 3 ) - 2
RETURN
    LEFT ( String, NumberLength )

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

@thomas_coltrain 
Please use the following

1.png

Year Number = 
VAR String = Data[Year]
VAR NumberLength = SEARCH ( "Y", String, 1, 3 ) - 2
RETURN
    LEFT ( String, NumberLength )

Fast service!! Thank you for the help!

tamerj1
Super User
Super User

@thomas_coltrain 
You are posting in dax forum but seems you are looking for power quer solution. However this can be solved in dax. Are you intersted in dax solution?

Opps!  Sure I don't mind if its in DAX

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