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juhoneyighot
Helper III
Helper III

DAX formula to get certain characters from a column

Hello!

 

I have a column with the following details. Please see table below. I just want to get "LBP_" from column Name. 

NameWhat I want
LBP_101 Shady Ln_Mills_JF101 Shady Ln_Mills_JF
LBP_111 Hyer St_Sands_CC111 Hyer St_Sands_CC

Please help me what DAX Formula to use. 

 

Thank you.

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Greg_Deckler
Super User
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@juhoneyighot Well, if they are all in that format then something like this:

DAX Column = 
    RIGHT([Name], LEN([Name]) - 4)

 



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Greg_Deckler
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@juhoneyighot Well, if they are all in that format then something like this:

DAX Column = 
    RIGHT([Name], LEN([Name]) - 4)

 



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