Split column based on text and numerical characters

[RL1]

Hi,

I'm trying to split a column that contains text and number components into two seperate columns, one containing the text characters and another containing the numbers. 

i.e. I want to go from the single column:

AB143

A122

VHG309

X12

XX13

to two columns containing:

AB                   143

A                     122

VHG                309

X                     12

XX                   13

Is this possible within Power BI?

Thanks.

[Greg_Deckler]

You could potentially use PostionOfAny function:

List.PositionOfAny("ABCBA", {"A","B"}, Occurrence.All) equals {0,1,3,4}  

You would probably have to use an M custom function or another function to return the lowest value in the list and then feed that to a Split.

[MarcelBeug · Accepted solution]

Instead I would propose Text.PositionOfAny as illustrated in this video.

Relevant parts of the code generated during video recording ("PreviousStep" is the name of your previous step):

    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(PreviousStep, "Custom", each Text.PositionOfAny([Column1],{"0".."9"})),
    #"Inserted First Characters" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "First Characters", each Text.Start([Column1], [Custom]), type text),
    #"Inserted Text Range" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted First Characters", "Text Range", each Text.Middle([Column1], [Custom]), type text),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Inserted Text Range",{"Column1", "Custom"}),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Removed Columns",{{"Text Range", "Number"}}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Number", Int64.Type}})

[RL1]

That works well (& video was very helpful).

Thanks.

[BrianP]

If you could get your cell addresses as $A$1 rather that A1, you could simply split columns based on the delimiter $.