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Match() function in DAX?

Does power BI has some sort of match function where I pass a column, a list of values from that column, and put those values as a certain category?

For instance, the values from a col called Produtcts are: Honda, BMW, Ferrari, etc I want to group into a column called category as Car, the others values, as others.

 

In another BI tool i use a function like this Category = If(match("Produtcs", ("Honda","BMW","Ferrari"))>0, Car,Others)) 

 

Does Dax has sometning like that?

 

Thank you!

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Anonymous
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Hi,

 

You could use the IN operator to do that kind of "match".

In your example the new column could be created with the following DAX statement:

 

Category =

IF (

     'Table'[Products] IN { "Honda", "BMW", "Ferrari"},

     "Car",

     "Others"
)

 

Br,

Magnus

Anonymous
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is there function equivalent to "IN with wildcard"? for example match x IN { "foo*, fo-o*", "bar"}

Old question, but never answered.  I have 1.8 million rows and 1400 distinct values.  It simply isn't practical to list them on the command line, not to mention, it's an easy match -- the first two or three characters will get me where I need to be.  Awk is looking more promising.

Anonymous
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CONTAINSSTRING might help

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