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Clean column from delimiter
Community ChampionHi Anonymous
If the country is always at the end, you can just split the text based on the commas and take the last item of the resulting list. Paste this M code on a blank query to see the steps on an example (the custom column is the relevant one):
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCi5PTUnNU4rViVYKzcssSU1RCC5JLEktBov4F+fk6xga6Sj45ReVJ1aCxYyMdRTcihLzklOVYmMB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [SYSTEM__LOCATION = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"SYSTEM__LOCATION", type text}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each List.Last(Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv)([SYSTEM__LOCATION])))
in
#"Added Custom"
Take into account however that this will fail in cases where the contry name includes a comma, like "Korea, Republic of". You'll have to come up with a method to tell those cases apart.
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AlB
I can't see that this is working as it should.As you can see in the picture the country in custom.custom is not the same as the source country in SYSTEM.LOCATION.
The only countries that are showing in the custom column is Sweden, United States, Norway and France - and those are not even linked correct as it seems. When I choose sweden I got all of the countries.
- AlB
Hi Anonymous
It seems to be working based on the column Custom.SYSTEM_LOCATION, doesn't it? Your code is probably processing the incorrect column (Custom.SYSTEM_LOCATION instead of SYSTEM_LOCATION); that should be easy to change. If you share a data sample (or the full M code of your query) we can work on it. You see that it works in the example i provided, right?
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Cheers
AlB
Yes, it is working with that column. But I want it ti refer to the column SYSTEM_LOCATION.
I took the code you shared with me and it made it like that.