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kracrde
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7 years ago
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Question on data formatting

Hi all,   I have a problem with data formatting I am not able to resolve myself. I hope someone can give me a good hint on how to solve it. I have a table with item numbers, description etc. The i...
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  • affan's avatar
    affan
    7 years ago

    Hi kracrde,

     

    You can model your data using the Query editor. As you have different cases in the data, some are having a delimiter '-' and some are starting with an alphabet. You need to apply the cleanup to all cases. Please see the video below that I created for you.

     

     

    If this helped you, please mark this post as an accepted solution and like to give KUDOS .

     

    Regards,

    Affan

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Anonymous
Not applicable
7 years ago

Hi,

 

Can you try this formula for your calculated column?

 

 

Item =
IF (
    LEFT ( RIGHT ( Table1[ItemNumbers], 4 ), 3 ) = "000",
    LEFT ( Table1[ItemNumbers], 5 ),
    Table1[ItemNumbers]
)

 

Sample Output

 

Original Item NumerItem
M78644M78644
78644-00178644
7864478644
78644-00578644

 

This formula is only to test the logic as I have assumed that minimum there will be 5 characters. If you have items with length less than 5 characters, error will happen. You have to use IFERROR function to handle that error.

 

 

 

PattemManohar's avatar
PattemManohar
Community Champion
7 years ago

kracrde If you want to do it in Power Query, please try "Custom Column" as below

 

if Text.Start(Text.End([Value],5),4) = "-000" then "78644" else [Value]