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Hello all,
I am just curious if there is a way to solve this. I have a text column and I am searching this column using an excel table which is working fine but say one of my keywords is "leg" its returning a true value if someone writes "College" in that free text column.
Is there a way to say in DAX I only want this string only if there is a space either side of it?
I hope this makes sense.
Thank you.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Here's an example of how you could write it:
Test Measure =
CALCULATE (
COUNTROWS ( Table1 ),
CONTAINSSTRING ( Table1[Column1], " leg" )
|| CONTAINSSTRING ( Table1[Column1], "leg " )
)
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Here's an example of how you could write it:
Test Measure =
CALCULATE (
COUNTROWS ( Table1 ),
CONTAINSSTRING ( Table1[Column1], " leg" )
|| CONTAINSSTRING ( Table1[Column1], "leg " )
)
Proud to be a Super User!
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