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Power BI Substring DAX

‎08-13-2019 08:30 AM

How Can I achieve COLUMN2 using DAX? Columns2 out is to show the characters before '-' from Column1 

 

COLUMN1COLUMN2
ABC-123ABC
DEFG-456DEFG
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AlB
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‎08-13-2019 08:57 AM

Hi @Anonymous 

Try this as new calculated column in your table

 

Column =
LEFT ( Table1[COLUMN1]; FIND ( "-"; Table1[COLUMN1] ) - 1 )

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AlB
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‎08-13-2019 08:57 AM

Hi @Anonymous 

Try this as new calculated column in your table

 

Column =
LEFT ( Table1[COLUMN1]; FIND ( "-"; Table1[COLUMN1] ) - 1 )
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