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yyyy
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how to add a value from another table when a string contains this value?

I need some help to achieve this, hope someone can help. 

 

I have a table with a column named 'Title'. 

I have another table with a column named 'Code'. 

What I need to achieve is: 
If table1.Title contains a value that is present in tabl2.Code, I want to see this code in Table1. 

 

Example: 

Table1
CODE 

ABC

DEF

XYZ

 

Table2 has a column TITLE, and I want to add a column CODE. 

Example: 

CODE        TITLE

DEF            this title contains DEF, so I want to see this as code

ABC           this title contains ABC
                  this title contains QQQ. QQQ is not present in table one, so code must stay empty

 

 

 

 

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

@EvL1973 

You are right. Following is amended 

Code =
VAR T1 =
    FILTER ( Table1, CONTAINSSTRING ( Table2[Title], Table1[Code] ) )
RETURN
    IF ( NOT ISEMPTY ( T1 ), MAXX ( T1, Table1[Code] ) )

 

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

@EvL1973 

You are right. Following is amended 

Code =
VAR T1 =
    FILTER ( Table1, CONTAINSSTRING ( Table2[Title], Table1[Code] ) )
RETURN
    IF ( NOT ISEMPTY ( T1 ), MAXX ( T1, Table1[Code] ) )

 

EvL1973
Frequent Visitor

I think the provided solution doesn't work: 

I used this to test it:  

Table1
table1table1

Table 2

table 2table 2

 

New calculated column in table 2: 

calculatedcolumn.png

 

 

 

tamerj1
Super User
Super User

Hi @yyyy 
Seems there is some confusion or typo mistakes in the question. I will assume that Table2 has the column [Title] that is a text which might contain one of codes available in Table1[Code] and you want to create a new column in Table2 that contains the code from Table1 if it existis with the title text otherwise return blank.

Code =
IF (
    NOT ISEMPTY ( FILTER ( Table1, CONTAINSSTRING ( Table2[Title], Table1[Code] ) ) ),
    Table1[Code]
)

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