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Conditional Merge with power query

Hi Everyone,

 

Wanted just to ask to the community here, if you think is possible to make a conditional merging with 2 lookup tables.

Let's say I have a data table and in this table a column (Address) with a list of addresses, but no country, only city, so I want to add a second column with the country.  This information is available to me but in 2 separated lookup tables in one some addresses and in another other addresses, in the lookup tables, each address has its country in a separate column, and, I want to program the M code so that if the address of data table matches the address of lookup table1, then it gives me the country from lookup table 1, if there is no match, the code sees if there is the match in lookup table 2, if yes, then it gives me the country from lookup table 2, if also here no match for my address, then, either it leaves it blank or it writes a simple "-".

 

Was wondering what you think about it/if anyone thinks it is doable? 

 

Thanks!

Stefano

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AlexisOlson
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You can do both merges and then coalesce the two country columns into a single column.

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