Filtering out data from one column into another

[Anonymous]

I got a column in my table called attributes_overview in which information is just unsorted. It looks something like this:

Title | Attributes_Overview | Price
Laptop A | ADE34DG 123.123.123.123 Active | 980,10$
Phone A | 123.123.123.123 ADE34DG Active | 620,50$
Laptop B | Active ADE34DG 123.123.123.123 | 890,00$

The information being all random offcourse.

I need to make an extra column which only includes the MAC-Addresse of the devices.
I got this far but now I'm stuck:

MAC = IF(SEARCH("???.???.???.???", table[Attributes_Overview]))

[v-yanjiang-msft]

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[v-yanjiang-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

According to your description, I can extract the address in the format you mentioned "???.???.???.???".

Create a calculated column.

Addresse =
VAR _Position =
    SEARCH ( "???.???.???.???", 'Table'[Attributes_Overview] )
RETURN
    MID ( 'Table'[Attributes_Overview], _Position, 15 )

Get the result.

If you also want to extract the ADE34DG and Active part, is there any logic to distinguish them from text before or after?

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Community Support Team _ kalyj

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[azakir]

Hi @Anonymous 

In Power Query, you should be able to Split the column by delimeter

From PBI Desktop > Transform Data > Split Column > By Delimeter

From there : 

[Anonymous]

I placed the "|" in the post to mark the different columns. I need to split up this part "ADE34DG 123.123.123.123 Active" but the order of the column is random and the MAC-Address is also always different.

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , Try a new column in the power query

Text.Combine( List.Select(Text.Split([Attributes_Overview], " "), each _ Text.Contains(_, ".")),",")

I was not able test that

[Anonymous]

What do the "_" stand for?