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o59393
6 years agoPost Prodigy
How to split into rows by semicolons
Hi all I have in cells values separated by semicolons ";" How can I split the rows using Power Query when it detects semicolons in the cells? In other words, go from Country Produ...
- 6 years ago
o59393 here is another way to do this it is fully dynamic, unfortunately you cannot do this kind of transformation using UI.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wcs4vzSspqlTSUQooyk8pTS4BsXIS80C0qgJELDVFKVYnWik02BEoaAhToOBoDaGdgCKmBqrWQIykzgiuzgmqzhkoYg5UZ4yizhireSZAdWYgdbEA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"(blank)" = _t, #"(blank).1" = _t, #"(blank).2" = _t, #"(blank).3" = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"(blank)", type text}, {"(blank).1", type text}, {"(blank).2", type text}, {"(blank).3", type text}}), #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Changed Type", [PromoteAllScalars=true]), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"Country", type text}, {"Product", Int64.Type}, {"Plant", type text}, {"% Produced", type text}}), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Custom", each List.Zip({ Text.SplitAny([Plant],";"), Text.SplitAny([#"% Produced"],";")})), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom1",{"Plant", "% Produced"}), #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Custom"), #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Expanded Custom", {"Custom", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), "="), type text}), #"Split Column by Delimiter2" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Extracted Values", "Custom", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("=", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Plant", "Produced"}), #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter2",{{"Plant", type text}, {"Produced", Percentage.Type}}) in #"Changed Type2"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!
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parry2k
6 years agoSuper User
o59393 well original solution was based on two columns and you never mentioned that it can be more than two, it would be totally different solution to make it more dynamic. You should be more clear in your requirement/problem otherwise it just waste lot of everyone's time.