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giovissimo
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5 years ago
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Wildcard characters in filter expression

Hello, I have a table including all the students enrolled in a university course, and need to obtain the number of those who attended certain schools (identified by the prefix "school"). To do so, ...
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    parry2k
    5 years ago

    giovissimo there is no concept of wildcard, you can do something like this

     

    Students = CALCULATE([Students], FILTER(ALL(Course[SchoolName]),LEFT(Course[SchoolName],5)="School"))

Students = CALCULATE([Students], FILTER(ALL(Course[SchoolName]),CONTAINSSTRING(Course[SchoolName],"School"))

     

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parry2k
Super User
5 years ago

giovissimo there is no concept of wildcard, you can do something like this

 

Students = CALCULATE([Students], FILTER(ALL(Course[SchoolName]),LEFT(Course[SchoolName],5)="School"))

Students = CALCULATE([Students], FILTER(ALL(Course[SchoolName]),CONTAINSSTRING(Course[SchoolName],"School"))

 

Check my latest blog post Compare Budgeted Scenarios vs. Actuals I would ❤ Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos to whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!

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