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Find /compare text string segment between two tables
- 2 years ago
Thanks technosmith 🙂
I have attached a small PBIX with one approach.
Here is an extract of code for Table 1 with the Code column added:
let // ... Earlier steps here // Next step finds first matching Code from Table 2 #"Added Code" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Code", each let CurrentCodeGroup = [CodeGroup] in List.First(List.Select(#"Table 2"[Code],each Text.Contains(CurrentCodeGroup,_))), type text) in #"Added Code"The Added Code step finds the first Code from Table 2 that is contained in the CodeGroup string.
A null value should be returned in the case of no match.
Regards
Thanks OwenAuger
The PBIX visually would achieve what I need.
Your solution may work, however, I think I may have oversimplified the graphic supporting my question...
In your PBIX attachment I only noted one table, while I will have two tables. I did note in when looking at the Power query editor I did see the two tables. I am not yet familiar enough with Power query editor to understand your proposed solution. Thanks again for taking the time to respond!
After playing around with the avdanced editor using OwenAuger solution I applied it successfully to my data. Thanks OwenAuger !
- OwenAuger2 years agoSuper User
technosmith glad it helped!
Yes, both tables are present in Power Query but I had only loaded one. You can certainly load both to the data model if needed 🙂