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Janica123
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Helper I

Conditional deletion of prefixes in one column

Hello All, 

 

I have the following problem:

In one column (column1) I have entries with a certain prefix ($:#:de:) as well as entries without a prefix. Now I would like to delete only the prefixes so that I get a result like the one in column 2.

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Is there a way to do this in Power Query?

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Subash_Govind
Frequent Visitor

Hi Janica123,

Below M code for the prefix removing.

 

Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type","$:#:de:","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column1"})

AlienSx
Super User
Super User

Hello, @Janica123 

Table.TransformColumns(your_table, {"Column1", each Text.TrimStart(_, {"$", ":", "#", "d", "e"})})

 

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