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Hello everyone
I am totally new Power BI Desktop. I have connected PDF to extract table and everything is OK but one of the columns extracted is in Arabic letters and mixed numbers and the Arabic strings appeared reversed. So I am trying to reverse the strings (letters only not the numbers)
example:
10 مسا |
should be
اسم 10
so the text would be reversed not the number
Please guide me step by step as I am newbie (I want to apply the reverse to the whole column)
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @YasserKhalill ,
Follow steps below to achieve your requirement .
1.Split this column.
2.Add column to reverse the string .
3.Merge column to combine the number column and reversed string column.
4.Remove the extra column.
The M code works.
Let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjRQuNl6Y/ON5UqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}), #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type", "Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(" ", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Column1.1", "Column1.2"}), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Column1.1", Int64.Type}, {"Column1.2", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Custom", each Text.Reverse([Column1.2])), #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom", {{"Column1.1", type text}}, "en-US"),{"Custom", "Column1.1"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Merged Columns",{"Column1.2"}) in #"Removed Columns"
You can download my test pbix: https://qiuyunus-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/pbipro_qiuyunus_onmicrosoft_com/EYQ6Zofxvn9KtidMbk... .
Best Regards,
Amy
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Hi @YasserKhalill ,
Follow steps below to achieve your requirement .
1.Split this column.
2.Add column to reverse the string .
3.Merge column to combine the number column and reversed string column.
4.Remove the extra column.
The M code works.
Let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjRQuNl6Y/ON5UqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}), #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type", "Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(" ", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Column1.1", "Column1.2"}), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Column1.1", Int64.Type}, {"Column1.2", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Custom", each Text.Reverse([Column1.2])), #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom", {{"Column1.1", type text}}, "en-US"),{"Custom", "Column1.1"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Merged Columns",{"Column1.2"}) in #"Removed Columns"
You can download my test pbix: https://qiuyunus-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/pbipro_qiuyunus_onmicrosoft_com/EYQ6Zofxvn9KtidMbk... .
Best Regards,
Amy
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Thank you very much Amy for great help.
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