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If Statement Returns Incorrect Result in New Column
I am attempting to add a new column which looks through the specification column and returns the details in the rating column. I have tried this two different ways but neither seems to work as all t...
You will want to reverse your checks. Check for *** first, then for ** , then for * .
Thank you very much for that. Can you please explain why this worked?
Is it because in the way I had it set up originally the function would find the first * in the string return the defined result for that and then stop iterating through the rest of the if statements?
yep, you got it. The SWITCH() statement in DAX does the same. As soon as it has a match it exits.
Actually there is a bit more to your question than you might think. Here's a very interesting link
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/understanding-eager-vs-strict-evaluation-in-dax/