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Anonymous
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Use FILTER with CONTAINS

The column in my table follows this structure:

Time
["morning";"afternoon"]
["morning"]
["night"]
["night";"afternoon"]


I want to create a measure that counts the number of rows that contains the string "morning". Based on the example column above, the measure should return 2.
I've created the measure:

_measure = COUNTROWS(FILTER(MyTable,CONTAINS(MyTable,MyTable[Time],"morning")))
but is showing me a "in blank" result.
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parry2k
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Super User

@Anonymous try this

 

_measure = 
CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS( Taable ), CONTAINSSTRING(MyTable[Time],"morning"))

 

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amitchandak
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Super User

@Anonymous , see if one of the three can help

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

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

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

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parry2k
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Super User

@Anonymous try this

 

_measure = 
CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS( Taable ), CONTAINSSTRING(MyTable[Time],"morning"))

 

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