Column split by conditon

[Anonymous]

I have a requirement to extract/split data if value starts with P or QM to be 7 characters rest should be as-is, how it can be achived? help needed

As-is

PABCP01A

CSOMTO04

PPQRX01M

QM0888TA

ATLCTL01

to-be

PABCP01

CSOMTO04

PPQRX01

QM0888T

ATLCTL01

[ChrisMendoza]

@Anonymous -

This seems to work:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCnB0cg4wMHRUitWJVnIO9vcN8TcwAXMCAgKDIgwMfcGcQF8DCwuLEIgyxxAf5xAfA0Ol2FgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"As-is" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"As-is", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if Text.StartsWith([#"As-is"], "P") then Text.RemoveRange([#"As-is"],7) else if Text.StartsWith([#"As-is"],"QM") then Text.RemoveRange([#"As-is"],7) else [#"As-is"])
in
    #"Added Custom"

[Anonymous]

ChrisMendoza i have many such values below is the sample

[dax]

Hi ajitk15, 

You could follow above ChrisMendoza's suggestions or simplify code by "Or " condition like below

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCnB0cg4wMHRUitWJVnIO9vcN8TcwAXMCAgKDIgwMfcGcQF8DCwuLEIgyxxAf5xAfA0Ol2FgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"As-is" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"As-is", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if Text.StartsWith([#"As-is"], "P") or Text.StartsWith([#"As-is"],"QM") then Text.RemoveRange([#"As-is"],7) else [#"As-is"])
in
    #"Added Custom"

Best Regards,
Zoe Zhi

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[ChrisMendoza · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous -

Are you meaning that you have so many conditions for Text.StartsWith = "P" || "QM" || etc.?

If so, then you should include those requirements in your question.

Otherwise, you just need to add the logic from the last statment 

#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if Text.StartsWith([#"As-is"], "P") then Text.RemoveRange([#"As-is"],7) else if Text.StartsWith([#"As-is"],"QM") then Text.RemoveRange([#"As-is"],7) else [#"As-is"])