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Found a couple of answers on this but none that fit my issue - I'm working with data that's been entered into a free text field, and it's a bit of a nightmare. The easiest way to clean it up will be to strip out any letters, punctuation or spaces etc and leave only the numerical values, and then I can look at only the left 9 characters. Can this be done in a calculated column? Below is an example of the sort of mess I'm working with, they should all be in the same format as the first line!
DT Number |
817754788 |
817754749; ZLODT 817754832 |
817751095/817751096 |
817754865, 817754869, 817755578 |
817754898 817754906 |
ZLO DT 817792131 |
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@Anonymous,
In Power Query, create this custom column. The ranges such as 32 - 47 refer to ASCII characters.
Text.Remove(
[DT Number],
{
Character.FromNumber(32) .. Character.FromNumber(47),
Character.FromNumber(58) .. Character.FromNumber(255)
}
)
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In PQ, in a custom column, you can use below formula
= Text.Select([DT Number],{"0".."9"})
If you want to look at only first 9 characters of extracted numbers
= Text.Start(Text.Select([DT Number],{"0".."9"}),9)
In PQ, in a custom column, you can use below formula
= Text.Select([DT Number],{"0".."9"})
If you want to look at only first 9 characters of extracted numbers
= Text.Start(Text.Select([DT Number],{"0".."9"}),9)
Perfect, thank you!
@Anonymous,
In Power Query, create this custom column. The ranges such as 32 - 47 refer to ASCII characters.
Text.Remove(
[DT Number],
{
Character.FromNumber(32) .. Character.FromNumber(47),
Character.FromNumber(58) .. Character.FromNumber(255)
}
)
Proud to be a Super User!
This also works, thank you!
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