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‎04-08-2020 09:26 AM

I want to find everything after the first colon and  everything before the last hyphen, please see sample data below and the output am expecting 

 

 

 

IDOutput
BOA:ServiceJourney:979-349979
BOA:ServiceJourney:1-1515-16441-1515
BOA:ServiceJourney:2071-3512071
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amitchandak
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‎04-08-2020 09:32 AM

All are dax functions, Replace A2 with the column name

Create a new column

=MID(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100),1,FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100),"-","|",LEN(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100),"-",""))))-1)

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/substitute-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/find-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/left-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/len-function-dax

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‎04-08-2020 09:32 AM

All are dax functions, Replace A2 with the column name

Create a new column

=MID(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100),1,FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100),"-","|",LEN(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(MID(Table[ID],1+FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(Table[ID],":","|",2)),100),"-",""))))-1)

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/substitute-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/find-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/left-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/len-function-dax

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