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meenakshiramdeo
Frequent Visitor

Find exact substring in string/description

I want to search for exact string in a column and then get a true or false result.

For eg If I have to search "AGRESSIVE" or "CLIENT Not" in  

"Welcome: This is agressiveness behaviour"

 

I am currently using CONTAINS function and it gives me true as agressiveness has AGRESSIVE but I need false so if exact search exist then  only result should be true and false in below case like -

"Aagressive"

"agressiveness"

 

 

Thanks

Meenakshi Ramdeo

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @meenakshiramdeo 

 

The following method is for your reference:

 

Sample:

vxuxinyimsft_0-1717998922194.png

 

Create a measure as follows

Measure = IF(CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT("aggressive", MAX([Column])), "True", "False")

 

or a calculated column as follows

Column 1 = IF(CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT("aggressive", [Column]), "True", "False")

 

Output:

vxuxinyimsft_1-1717999038949.png

 

Best Regards,
Yulia Xu

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @meenakshiramdeo 

 

The following method is for your reference:

 

Sample:

vxuxinyimsft_0-1717998922194.png

 

Create a measure as follows

Measure = IF(CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT("aggressive", MAX([Column])), "True", "False")

 

or a calculated column as follows

Column 1 = IF(CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT("aggressive", [Column]), "True", "False")

 

Output:

vxuxinyimsft_1-1717999038949.png

 

Best Regards,
Yulia Xu

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

meenakshiramdeo
Frequent Visitor

This will not help as adding space in YourTable[YourColumn] will becomeWelcome: This is agressiveness behaviour "

rajendraongole1
Super User
Super User

Hi @meenakshiramdeo - Can you try below dax function Contrainstring to get the exact string match

ExactMatch =
IF (
OR (
CONTAINSSTRING(" " & YourTable[YourColumn] & " ", " AGRESSIVE "),
CONTAINSSTRING(" " & YourTable[YourColumn] & " ", " CLIENT Not ")
),
TRUE(),
FALSE()
)

 

 

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