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Add column with list.generate
- 5 years ago
Hello Anonymous
I would suggest you to do this with List.Accumulate. After you created the list that represents your index-column you have to integrate it your current table with Table.ToColumns and Table.FromColumns. Check out this example.
Give it a try and if you have performance issue we can check if we can enhance it a little bit
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlCK1YlWMgSTBkgkXCQWAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [A = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"A", Int64.Type}}), CreateNewIndexColumn = List.RemoveFirstN ( List.Accumulate ( #"Changed Type"[A], {1}, (state,current)=> state & {List.Last(state) + current} ) ) , AddIndexColumnToTable = Table.FromColumns ( Table.ToColumns(#"Changed Type" ) & {CreateNewIndexColumn}, Table.ColumnNames(#"Changed Type") & {"Index"} ) in AddIndexColumnToTableCopy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.
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Jimmy - Anonymous5 years ago
ten millions rows worked in less than1'
let Source = List.Transform(List.Random(10000000), each Number.Round(_)), #"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error), #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Converted to Table", {"Column1"}, {{"Count", each Table.RowCount(_), Int64.Type}},GroupKind.Local), #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Index", 1, 1, Int64.Type), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "idx", each List.Repeat({[Index]},[Count])), #"Expanded idx" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "idx") in #"Expanded idx"
Hello Jimmy,
Thank you very much for your kind response. Your code is successfull for a new table. But my dataset is too large. If i use it with Table.ToColumns and Table.FromColumns functions the process takes a long time. Do you have any idea about how I should use it with add.column function?
Thank you,
- Jimmy8015 years agoCommunity Champion
Hello Anonymous
is this screenshot coming from the solutions I proposed? Because the added column doesn't contain lists, but numbers. The problem with AddColumns is that you cannot refer the value of the prior row of the function. So you have to use List.Generate or List.Accumulate to produce a list, and this list you have to integrate with Table.FromColumns.
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Jimmy