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Anonymous
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DAX to remove duplicates from comma separated string

Hi, 

I have input like below

vaishnaviudan_0-1709622423651.png

want to write a dax which will show below output:

vaishnaviudan_1-1709622481388.png

Note: Need solution in PowerBI Desktop only not in Power Query Editor(Advance Editor).

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Zang_Mi
Resolver II
Resolver II

Hello @Anonymous and @marksn, there is an article with the solution using DAX: Removing Duplicates and Sorting Delimited Strings in Power BI .

This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing 🙂

marksn
Frequent Visitor

is this still not possible in DAX?
I too have a calculated dax column that spits "abc; def; ghi; abc" and i want to get rid of duplicates (and at the same time sort it alphabetically).

Hi,

This is still not possible in DAX.  You will have to use Power Query to solve the question.


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Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

As far as I know, this is currently not possible with DAX, you can try to implement it in Power Query.

 

 

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