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EJA12
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3 years ago
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Extract the first two words separated by space

How to extract the first two words separated by space in another column, example I have the name MARIA ANGEL GOMEZ, I want that in another column only give me the name MARIA ANGEL and that it works w...
  • Kishore_KVN's avatar
    3 years ago

    Hello EJA12 , We can do this easily using split columns in Power Query editor. But if you want to do this only in Power BI Desktop, you can use below DAX expressions:

    My sample data is like this:

    New column calculation will be like this:

    Split = 
    Var Replace_value = SUBSTITUTE(Data[Name]," ","+",2)
    Var Find_Value = FIND("+",Replace_value,1,0)
    Var Split_Value = IF(Find_Value>0,LEFT(Replace_value,Find_Value-1),Data[Name])
    Return
    Split_Value

    Output looks like this:

     

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