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Dain
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Power query

Hi All
A small doubt
I have column having
Cyz_20180907043000
I want take the substring Cyz_201809070 from the above text value.
I know this can be done in DAX.
But I want this to be done in auery editor using custom column.
1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Hello,

 

no problem.

 

Text.Start([Text],13) is the equivalent of the LEFT-function in M.

 

Best regards.

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Floriankx
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Solution Sage

Hello,

 

if Text has always the same length then Column=LEFT([Test],13) should simply do the job.

Thank You.

 

I want this to be done in power query.I am trying to add a custom column.

Hello,

 

no problem.

 

Text.Start([Text],13) is the equivalent of the LEFT-function in M.

 

Best regards.

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