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LP2803
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Remove specific text from each column headers

Hi Team,

 

can anyone help me how can i remove some text from the column headers in M Query. 

 

Below is how my advance editor looks like as of now.

 

let
Source = Table.Combine({#"59Z]&size=10000", #"59Z]&size=10000 (2)"}),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Source, each not Text.Contains([Column1._index], "xyz"))
in
#"Filtered Rows"

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LP2803
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I figured it out 🙂 thank for your help @amitchandak 

 

 

let
Source = Table.Combine({#"59Z]&size=10000", #"59Z]&size=10000 (2)"}),
#"Rename all Headers" = Table.TransformColumnNames(Source,each Text.Replace(_,"Column1._source.","")),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Rename all Headers", each not Text.Contains([Column1._index], "xyz"))
in
#"Filtered Rows"

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amitchandak
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@LP2803 , column headers should be renamed ? Data you can replace/remove ?

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@amitchandak the column names contains text "column1._source"  which i need to replace with null.

LP2803
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I figured it out 🙂 thank for your help @amitchandak 

 

 

let
Source = Table.Combine({#"59Z]&size=10000", #"59Z]&size=10000 (2)"}),
#"Rename all Headers" = Table.TransformColumnNames(Source,each Text.Replace(_,"Column1._source.","")),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Rename all Headers", each not Text.Contains([Column1._index], "xyz"))
in
#"Filtered Rows"

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