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Using Power Query to extract the first occurring number from a string (URL)
I have a coumn with URLs from which I would like to extract the first occuring number. My constraints:
- the numbers don't occurre at the same position
- there might be some numbers further in the string that I do not want to extract
- the number to extract does not always have the same length
- i just want to extract the first occurring number (starting from the left).
It seems quite simple but I haven't found any previous posts sharing a solution to a similar issue...
Any ideas how I could achieve this?
I am thinking that if I can find the starting and ending position of that number then I could perhaps use splitter.SplitTextByPosition...
Text.Combine(List.FirstN( List.Select( Text.Split(Text.Select( [Column1],{"0".."9","/"}),"/"),(x)=>x<>""),1))
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Text.Combine(List.FirstN( List.Select( Text.Split(Text.Select( [Column1],{"0".."9","/"}),"/"),(x)=>x<>""),1))It workssssssssss! thank you so much for the quick support! Hope this helps others in the future.
post an example and the desired result
Here is an example.
My column would have URLs as such:
/questions/11928/qwertyuio-asdfghj-34.html
/questions/7229/can-you-share-your-experience-in-developing-a-trai.html?childToView=8665#answer-8665
/articles/11867/jhbvcfgtyujn-4.html
/idea/11875/kjhgukjnk.html
/content/idea/234/kjhgukjnk.html
/content/articles/888383/jhbvcfgtyujn-4.html
The extract would be as such:
11928
7229
11867
11875
234
888383
