Split a Text column by delimiter multiple combinations - mQuery

[prabhatnath]

Hi Friends,

I have a table that is loaded into Power BI and has a column as "Cycles" and has text data as below.
And I wanted to add another column "FY Quarter" during the data load steps using mQuery. Can you please advise the best way for this?

Cycles	FY Quarter
Project\FY23\FY23-Q4\Cycle-1	FY23-Q4
Project\FY23\FY23-Q4\Cycle-2	FY23-Q4
Project\FY24	FY24
Project\FY24\FY24-Q1	FY24-Q1
Project\FY24\FY24-Q1\Cycle-3	FY24-Q1
Project\FY24\FY24-Q1\Cycle-4	FY24-Q1
Project\FY24\FY24-Q1\Cycle-5	FY24-Q1
Project\FY24\FY24-Q2	FY24-Q2
Project\FY24\FY24-Q2\Cycle-6	FY24-Q2
Project\FY24\FY24-Q2\Cycle-7	FY24-Q2

Thanks,
Prabhat

[danextian · Accepted solution]

Hi @prabhatnath ,

Try the following custom column in the query editor:

if Text.Contains([Cycles], "\Cycle-") then Text.BetweenDelimiters([Cycles], "\", "\Cycle-", {1, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0) else Text.AfterDelimiter([Cycles], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd})

Here's the complete M Code

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCijKz0pNLomJcYs0MoaQuoEmMTHOlck5qbqGSjpKUCGlWB1Cqo3wqDaByGGRgJC6gVC7wCzcimB2GZOk2oQk1abEqDaCKzLCowhmpBlJqs2RVccCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Cycles = _t, #"FY Quarter" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Cycles", type text}, {"FY Quarter", type text}}),
    Custom = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each 
if Text.Contains([Cycles], "\Cycle-") then Text.BetweenDelimiters([Cycles], "\", "\Cycle-", {1, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0) else Text.AfterDelimiter([Cycles], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text)
in
    Custom

[prabhatnath]

Thanks, @Ahmedx and @danextian both the solution is working great, not sure how can I mark both as the solution, but just mark one based on the number of views. Thank you friends for the solution.

- Prabhat

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[Ahmedx · Accepted solution]

plse try this

try
List.Select(
Text.Split([Cycles],"\"),(x)=> Text.Contains(x,"-Q", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)){0} otherwise List.Select(
Text.Split([Cycles],"\"),(x)=> Text.Contains(x,"FY", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)){0}

 

[danextian · Accepted solution]

Hi @prabhatnath ,

Try the following custom column in the query editor:

if Text.Contains([Cycles], "\Cycle-") then Text.BetweenDelimiters([Cycles], "\", "\Cycle-", {1, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0) else Text.AfterDelimiter([Cycles], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd})

Here's the complete M Code

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCijKz0pNLomJcYs0MoaQuoEmMTHOlck5qbqGSjpKUCGlWB1Cqo3wqDaByGGRgJC6gVC7wCzcimB2GZOk2oQk1abEqDaCKzLCowhmpBlJqs2RVccCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Cycles = _t, #"FY Quarter" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Cycles", type text}, {"FY Quarter", type text}}),
    Custom = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each 
if Text.Contains([Cycles], "\Cycle-") then Text.BetweenDelimiters([Cycles], "\", "\Cycle-", {1, RelativePosition.FromEnd}, 0) else Text.AfterDelimiter([Cycles], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text)
in
    Custom