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unclejemima
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8 years ago
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Search for multiple text in one column with OR

I'm trying to find all records in inventry[part] that equal "Ice" or "Gel" to say "Cold" This formula is not working...help please :-)   55a_ColdDrinks = IF( ISERROR( SEARCH(OR("Ice", "Gel"),...
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  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    8 years ago

    Hi unclejemima,

     

    Please try this:

    55a_ColdDrinks = 
SWITCH (
    TRUE (),
    SEARCH ( "Ice", Inventry[Part], 1, 0 ) > 0, "Cold",
    SEARCH ( "Gel", Inventry[Part], 1, 0 ) > 0, "Cold",
    BLANK()
)

    Alternatively, with Power Query, you can populate the search text into list and create custom function to iterator each one of them to check if within the text. Reference: How to search multiple strings in a string.

     

    Best regards,

    Yuliana Gu

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v-yulgu-msft
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8 years ago

Hi unclejemima,

 

Please try this:

55a_ColdDrinks = 
SWITCH (
    TRUE (),
    SEARCH ( "Ice", Inventry[Part], 1, 0 ) > 0, "Cold",
    SEARCH ( "Gel", Inventry[Part], 1, 0 ) > 0, "Cold",
    BLANK()
)

Alternatively, with Power Query, you can populate the search text into list and create custom function to iterator each one of them to check if within the text. Reference: How to search multiple strings in a string.

 

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu