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Extracting specific number form alphanumeric text
Hi. Need help in extracting consecutive numeric string from cell. for example extracting "987654321" from string below "P06 Payroll 92 team 32A ACCRUAL 987654321 Sub" Numeric string to be ...
Not particularly elegant, but works for me:
(TextInput as text) => let Source = TextInput, Custom1 = Text.Split(Source, " "), Custom2 = List.Select(Custom1, each Text.Length(_) = 9), Custom3 = List.Transform(Custom2, each Text.ToList(_)), Custom5 = List.Select(Custom3, each List.MatchesAll(_, (li)=> List.Contains({"0".."9"}, li))){0}, Custom4 = Text.Combine(Custom5) in Custom4
Does it always follow a specific term or number of spaces from the beginning or the end?
there is no specific place in string this might come. Dpending on user input (geogrpahically dispersed users), numeric string can appear anywhere in the cell. Numeric string to be pulled out will always be 9 characters if that helps.
There's no easy DAX way that I can think of off the top of my head, perhaps ImkeF has an M way.
Not particularly elegant, but works for me:
(TextInput as text) => let Source = TextInput, Custom1 = Text.Split(Source, " "), Custom2 = List.Select(Custom1, each Text.Length(_) = 9), Custom3 = List.Transform(Custom2, each Text.ToList(_)), Custom5 = List.Select(Custom3, each List.MatchesAll(_, (li)=> List.Contains({"0".."9"}, li))){0}, Custom4 = Text.Combine(Custom5) in Custom4Thanks for the inputs. I am not trained with M query. Can this be used while adding custom column?
Will request you to share any quick tutorial that might help me to implement the solution.
Hello Greg,
Thanks a lot for your help.
regards