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Jason6
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6 years ago
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How to sort alphabetically within a cell in Transform data

Hi All,

 

I have a column with varying lenghts of text and my objective is to sort each of the cell values in this column aphabetically

For example:

if cell contains the word "alexchen" , i want a custom column which converts this to "aceehlnx".

if cell contains the word "acdb" , i want a custom column which converts this to "abcd".

Thank you all in advance for your help

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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    6 years ago

    Jason6 start blank query and in advanced editor paste following code and you will have the result.

     

     

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WSsxJrUjOSM1TitWJVqqqqqpMLE4EsxNTkoGMWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [c = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"c", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each List.Sort(Text.ToList([c]))),
    #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Custom", {"Custom", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From)), type text})
in
    #"Extracted Values"

     

     

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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    Super User
    6 years ago

    Jason6 start blank query and in advanced editor paste following code and you will have the result.

     

     

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WSsxJrUjOSM1TitWJVqqqqqpMLE4EsxNTkoGMWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [c = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"c", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each List.Sort(Text.ToList([c]))),
    #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Custom", {"Custom", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From)), type text})
in
    #"Extracted Values"

     

     

    I would ❤ Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!

    ⚡Visit us at https://perytus.com, your one-stop shop for Power BI related projects/training/consultancy.⚡