OR function in an IF(SEARCH) function

[Charlott_9]

Hello,
I have region labels that always contain the same characters. Ex: "CE" for the "Centre" region, but sometimes for this region, it simply says "Région Centre" instead of "CE".
I made an IF(SEARCH) function to be able to make my matches.
Ex: if(SEARCH("CE ",'Table',1,0), "Centre").
However, I can't add an OR function to my SEARCH function.
I've tried this: if(SEARCH(OR("CE ", "Région Centre"),'Table',1,0), "Centre"), but it doesn't work.
Do you know how to do this?

[mussaenda]

Hi @Charlott_9 ,

have you tried containstring function?

[Charlott_9]

Hi @mussaenda 

Before using the SEARCH function, I looked at how the function CONTAINSSTRING worked, and I wasn't sure It would have solved my problem. 

The SEARCH function answers to my first request which is to find some words in all my characters strings, and I have many matches to do (like maybe more than 30). But I would like to add an other possibility in my function SEARCH (Ex : "CE" OR "Centre" and not only "CE" --> Because the match will be "Centre" for this 2 words), to limit the number of IF in my formula.

Maybe I didn't well understand how to use CONTAINSSTRING function. Could you please tell me how it would be useful to use it?

Thanks for your help,

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Charlott_9 ,

Please try like:

IF (
    SEARCH ( "CE", 'Table'[ColName], 1, BLANK () ) || 
    SEARCH ( "Région Centre", 'Table'[ColName], 1, BLANK () ) ||
    <search3> ||
    ...
    <search30>,
    "Centre",
    ""
)

The dax function is not very good at doing this, so if you can consider using the m code in powerquery.
Custom column:

if List.MatchesAny({"CE","Région Centre","OtherTextYouWant"},(x)=> Text.Contains([Column1],x)) then "Centre" else ""

Best Regards,
Gao
Community Support Team

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