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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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split column to get only integers

Hello all,

 

Hope you all doing well. I need your help in my data query.  i have a column called ABC with data as follows:

 

Ravi-1

Syntel-42

Phoenix-34

Query-67
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Query-Manipulated

central

 

Now, i want to get a column with only numbers(present at the end). for values with no integer i can have 0. i tried with split column, but as data is not in proper format it doesn't help.

 

Also, Mquery i cant touch.

 

Please provide me with good solution.

 

Thankyou

 

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  • v-alq-msft's avatar
    v-alq-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi, Anonymous 

     

    I;d like to suggest you use Power Query. I created data to reproduce your scenario.

    Table:

     

    You may add a new custom column with the following formula.

     

    = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type","Result",each if Text.Length (Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."}))=0 then 0 else Number.FromText(Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."})) )

     

     

    Here is my codes in 'advanced editor'.

     

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCkosy9Q1VIrViVYKrswrSc3RNTEC8wIy8lPzMit0jU3A3MDS1KJKXTNzMMcnPzElMy9dT08PSc43MS+zoDQnsSQ1BSyanJpXUpSYoxQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ABC = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ABC", type text}}),
    Custom1 = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type","Result",each if Text.Length (Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."}))=0 then 0 else Number.FromText(Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."})) )
in
    Custom1

     

     

    Result:

     

    Best Regards

    Allan

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    Would this work?

     

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCkosy9Q1VIrViVYKrswrSc3RNTEC8wIy8lPzMit0jU3A3MDS1KJKXTNzMMcnPzElMy9dT08PSc43MS+zoDQnsSQ1BSyanJpXUpSYoxQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Inserted Text After Delimiter" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Text After Delimiter", each Text.AfterDelimiter([Column1], "-", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Inserted Text After Delimiter",{{"Text After Delimiter", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Replaced Errors" = Table.ReplaceErrorValues(#"Changed Type1", {{"Text After Delimiter", 0}})
    in
    #"Replaced Errors"

     

     

    So I first take the part after the first delimiter (-) starting from the right. Then I will get a column with numbers, and some with words. Then I convert to whole numbers, which will result in errors for the strings. Then I replace the errors with a 0, and voila.

     

    There may be a better way to do this, but this seems to work so far.

     

    Jaap

  • rajulshah's avatar
    rajulshah
    Resident Rockstar
    6 years ago

    Hello Anonymous,

     

    As you said you cannot touch MQuery, I have tried creating a calculated column as below:

    Last Integer = 
VAR IfExists = SEARCH("-",SplitColumns[Value],1,-1)
VAR TotalLength = LEN(SplitColumns[Value])
VAR SplitInteger = IF(IfExists>0,RIGHT(SplitColumns[Value],TotalLength-IfExists),"0")
RETURN IFERROR(INT(SplitInteger),-2)

    Please see the result below:
     

    Hope this helps.

  • v-alq-msft's avatar
    v-alq-msft
    Community Support
    6 years ago

    Hi, Anonymous 

     

    I;d like to suggest you use Power Query. I created data to reproduce your scenario.

    Table:

     

    You may add a new custom column with the following formula.

     

    = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type","Result",each if Text.Length (Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."}))=0 then 0 else Number.FromText(Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."})) )

     

     

    Here is my codes in 'advanced editor'.

     

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCkosy9Q1VIrViVYKrswrSc3RNTEC8wIy8lPzMit0jU3A3MDS1KJKXTNzMMcnPzElMy9dT08PSc43MS+zoDQnsSQ1BSyanJpXUpSYoxQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ABC = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ABC", type text}}),
    Custom1 = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type","Result",each if Text.Length (Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."}))=0 then 0 else Number.FromText(Text.TrimStart([ABC],{"a".."z","A".."Z"}&{"-","."})) )
in
    Custom1

     

     

    Result:

     

    Best Regards

    Allan

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.