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6 years ago
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Split? Merge?? Find??? Trim????

Morning all, I've never done this before, and it is just confusing.  I have two columns, One for the Operating System and one for the version. What I need to do is Trim bits from both columns and...
  • FrankAT's avatar
    6 years ago

    Hi @Noblelox,

    Follow these steps:

    // Table
    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCs/MS8kvL1YwNFBwzStJLSooyixOVdJRMjTQM1DQMDQzsrTUVIrVQSg0Vwgoyk9LLS7OzM9LzAGqNNMzVNAwNzMwhKjzTUxW8A9WiICYYWisZ4ai3QKoGsUiMz1jBQ1LMwMDoPZYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Column 1" = _t, #"Column 2" = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column 1", type text}, {"Column 2", type text}}),
        #"Replaced Value1" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type","Enterprise","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column 1"}),
        #"Replaced Value2" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value1","Professional","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column 1"}),
        #"Added Prefix" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Replaced Value2", {{"Column 2", each "(" & _, type text}}),
        #"Added Suffix" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Prefix", {{"Column 2", each _ & ")", type text}}),
        #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Added Suffix","))",")",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column 2"}),
        #"Split Column by Delimiter1" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Replaced Value", "Column 2", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({"("}, QuoteStyle.Csv, true), {"Column 2.1", "Column 2.2"}),
        #"Added Prefix1" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Split Column by Delimiter1", {{"Column 2.2", each "(" & _, type text}}),
        #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Prefix1",{"Column 2.1"}),
        #"Inserted Merged Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Column 3", each Text.Combine({[Column 1], [Column 2.2]}, ""), type text),
        #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Inserted Merged Column",{{"Column 2.2", "Column 2"}})
    in
        #"Renamed Columns"

    Figure: Start

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    Figure: End

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    Greetings FrankAT