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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 Loading... Query-Manipulated...
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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.

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.