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abrasington
8 years agoRegular Visitor
Comparing strings between two separate sheets for True/False result
Hi there, new to BI and loving it so far. I would like to do the following: Create a custom column on one sheet, which compares the string in one of the Columns (Let's say Column A) against the s...
- 8 years ago
According to your description, you have "find string" in Column A, then you want to search Column A, if the delimited string is included in any Column A entry, then return TRUE, otherwise FALSE. Right?
In this scenario, you can put SEARCH() function into SUMX() to get the total index for each delimited string. Please see my sample below:
Column = IF(SUMX(String,SEARCH(Word[Word],String[String],,0))>0,1,0)
Regards,
v-sihou-msft
8 years agoMicrosoft Employee
According to your description, you have "find string" in Column A, then you want to search Column A, if the delimited string is included in any Column A entry, then return TRUE, otherwise FALSE. Right?
In this scenario, you can put SEARCH() function into SUMX() to get the total index for each delimited string. Please see my sample below:
Column = IF(SUMX(String,SEARCH(Word[Word],String[String],,0))>0,1,0)
Regards,