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Anonymous
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Formatting a column

Hi all,

 

I had a question about the following, I want to format a column like this: 

 

12303213         --> 123_3213   

123056453       --> 123_56453  

12309801         --> 123_9801  

1230648112     --> 123_648112 

 

So basically I want to change the 4th character to a "_" the length values in the column can be different like shown above. I guess this has to be done using the FORMAT() function but I could'nt figure out how to write the DAX code for it.

 

Regards,

L.Meijdam 

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Greg_Deckler
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I would acutally use the REPLACE function:

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634374.aspx

 



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Greg_Deckler
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I would acutally use the REPLACE function:

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634374.aspx

 



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Anonymous
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Hi @Greg_Deckler,

 

Thanks I diddnt know that the REPLACE function existed, thanks for pointing me in the right direction !

 

Regards,

L.Meijdam

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