Remove additional character in HTML

[Anonymous]

Hello All,

I have a column that is in HTML format. I would like to keep the column as HTML and display HTML in my report. But I have additional characters "&?". I want to remove this additional column from the HTML value.

I am trying this function to remove the additional characters - 

(HTML as text) =>
let
    Source = Text.From(HTML),
    SplitAny = Text.SplitAny(Source,"amp;?"),
    ListAlternate = List.Alternate(SplitAny,1,1,1),
    ListSelect = List.Select(ListAlternate, each _<>"&"),
    TextCombine = Text.Combine(ListSelect, " ")
in
    TextCombine

I am using this function in  my actual table

#"HTML Cleanup" = Table.AddColumn(#"Promoted Headers", "NewColumn", each
        if [ExistingColumn] = null
            then null
        else #"HTML Cleaner"([ExistingColumn]))

The additional character is showing up in a link - 

https://abc.com/a/sr/attach/rkm/3023/23378?server=xyz&?timestamp=1585154001466

Can you provide any help in modifying the query or any other suggestion of how can I achieve this?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Made following change in the script and it worked.

(HTML as text) =>
let
    Source = Text.From(HTML),
    SplitAny = Text.Split(Source,"amp;?"),
    ListAlternate = List.Alternate(SplitAny,1,1,1),
    ListSelect = List.Select(ListAlternate, each _<>"&"),
    TextCombine = Text.Combine(ListSelect, " ")
in
    TextCombine

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous hello I found the sample query in one of the posts. Would you be able to help me out?

[v-deddai1-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Would you please try to use the following m-query?

(HTML as text) =>
let
    Source = Text.From(HTML),
    SplitAny = Text.SplitAny(Source,"<>"),
    ListAlternate = List.Alternate(SplitAny,1,1,1),
    ListSelect = List.Select(ListAlternate, each _<>""),
    TextCombine = Text.Combine(ListSelect, "")
in
    TextCombine

Please refer to the similiar post: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/b080d122-14f0-43bc-8a86-f50cdf1c32d8/removing-html-tags-when-source-is-sharepoint-list?forum=powerquery

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai