Search function with asterisk

[mba]

Hi all,

Even though support.microsoft.com says:

... in my column:

Keyword: Bryllup = IF(SEARCH( "bryllup*" , someTable[someColumn] , , BLANK() ),TRUE(),FALSE())

 
... I get True for many rows like "sometext sometext sølvbryllup sometext sometext", what pretty much contradicts what was written above...

How can I actually change it so that I separate words with leading and trailing characters?

[v-yalanwu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @mba ;

You could use split in power query.

1. add conditional column,

2.split it.

The final output is shown below:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WKs7PTS1JrShRQDAO78gpU0gqqszJKS1QwJBXitWJVkpMSlaKjQUA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [name = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"name", type text}}),
    #"Added Conditional Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if Text.Contains([name], "bryllup") then "True" else "Flase"),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Added Conditional Column", "name", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("bryllup", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"name.1", "name.2"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"name.1", type text}, {"name.2", type text}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"

Best Regards,
Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
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[Samarth_18]

HI @mba ,

You can try below code:-

Column = if(CONTAINSSTRING(bryllup[Column1],"bryllup"),TRUE(),FALSE())

Output:-

Thanks,

Samarth

[mba]

Thank you for your answer.

I appreciate your help. Nevertheless, how would I separate it so that I could look for rows that has some leading text with bryllup like "xxxbryllup" and other with trailing text: "bryllupxxx". I don't mean to just spot the word "bryllup", but to inspect if it has some leading/trailing characters next to it 🙂