Extracting specific number form alphanumeric text

[Anonymous]

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 pulled can begin from any number however total digits in string will always be same. 

[Greg_Deckler]

Does it always follow a specific term or number of spaces from the beginning or the end?

[Anonymous]

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. 

[Greg_Deckler]

There's no easy DAX way that I can think of off the top of my head, perhaps @ImkeF has an M way.

[Anonymous]

Hello Greg, 

Thanks a lot for your help. 

regards

[ImkeF · Accepted solution]

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

[Anonymous]

Following up with another solution i learned for this problem from my peer.

Replacing 9 with |9 (delimiter), extracting text after delimiter and replacing delimiter (|) with nothing. 

Regards, 

Vippan 

[Anonymous]

Thanks 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.  

[ImkeF]

You can find that tutorial here: https://www.thebiccountant.com/2019/01/30/add-a-column-with-custom-function-code-in-power-query/