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admin11
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How to Recode COMPANY field from 40 charater to 13 charater ?

Hi All

 

My COMPANY_NAME field now 40 charater , i like to recode this field to 13 charater. 

For example :- TDS Technology (S) Pte Ltd

recode to TDS Technology (13 charater)

 

Paul Yeo

 

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ryan_mayu
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@admin11 

since your sample data is too less, not sure if the solution fits your real data. maybe you can try this

 

Column = 
VAR _num=13-len(SUBSTITUTE(left('Table'[company_name],13)," ",""))
return left('Table'[company_name],13+_num)

 

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ryan_mayu
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@admin11 

since your sample data is too less, not sure if the solution fits your real data. maybe you can try this

 

Column = 
VAR _num=13-len(SUBSTITUTE(left('Table'[company_name],13)," ",""))
return left('Table'[company_name],13+_num)

 

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@ryan_mayu 

Thank you very much for sharing.

Paul

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