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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 pulled can begin from any number however total digits in string will always be same.
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
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Does it always follow a specific term or number of spaces from the beginning or the end?
There's no easy DAX way that I can think of off the top of my head, perhaps ImkeF has an M way.
