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Namoh
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6 years ago
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Remove first 2 characters from a column value

Hi.   I need to combine a few things, in PQE, in one new column. I can do this via CONCATENATE. Part of this combination is a value in a column, but I need to remove the first 2 characters.   A...
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    Anand24
    6 years ago

    From PQE, you can perform the below for having last 2 digits of Number column:
    1. Duplicate the Number column

    2. Perform below operations from Home ->Transform section at top:

    Split Column >> By Number of Characters

     

    3. Modify with below:

    Number of Characters = 2

    Split = Once, as far right as possible

     

    4. Remove unwanted split column and rename new column

     

    Alternatively, you can use below formula in Advanced Editor:
    #"Duplicated Column" = Table.DuplicateColumn(#"Changed Type", "Number", "Duplicated Number"),
    #"Split Column by Position" = Table.SplitColumn(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Duplicated Column", {{"Duplicated Number", type text}}, "en-IN"), "Duplicated Number", Splitter.SplitTextByPositions({0, 2}, true), {"Duplicated Number", "New Number"}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Split Column by Position",{"Duplicated Number"})

     

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