split column to get only integers

[Anonymous]

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

[v-alq-msft · Accepted solution]

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]

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.

[Anonymous]

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