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Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
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 ...
- 7 years ago
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
Greg_Deckler
7 years agoCommunity Champion
There's no easy DAX way that I can think of off the top of my head, perhaps ImkeF has an M way.
ImkeF
7 years agoCommunity Champion
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- Anonymous7 years agoNot applicable
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.
- ImkeF7 years agoCommunity Champion
You can find that tutorial here: https://www.thebiccountant.com/2019/01/30/add-a-column-with-custom-function-code-in-power-query/
- Anonymous6 years agoNot applicable
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