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Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
Convert Text Duration to Type Duration
Hello. I am trying to convert a text field to a duration, but my data comes in like this: I'd prefer to do this in Power Query Editor (M), rather than a calculated column (DAX). Can anyone...
- 4 years ago
Anonymous Ah well, couple folks beat me to the fun. I personally like Jakinta's solution mainly because it doesn't use regex which is like, why is that still a thing? Honestly though, CNENFRNL it is pretty cool that you can use regex in Power Query it's just I thought regex went the way of Perl and that everyone was happy about that fact.
Anyway, not to be outdone and left with a hacky DAX solution, I created one that is just as functional and flexible as the elegant solutions by Jakinta and CNENFRNL:
Duration = VAR __Separator = " " VAR __SearchText = MAX('Table'[Text Duration]) VAR __Len = LEN(__SearchText) VAR __Count = __Len - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(__SearchText,__Separator,"")) + 1 VAR __Table = ADDCOLUMNS( ADDCOLUMNS( GENERATESERIES(1,__Count,1), "__Word", VAR __Text = SUBSTITUTE(__SearchText,__Separator,"|",IF([Value]=1,1,[Value]-1)) VAR __Start = SWITCH(TRUE(), __Count = 1,1, [Value] = 1,1, FIND("|",__Text)+1 ) VAR __End = SWITCH(TRUE(), __Count = 1,__Len, [Value] = 1,FIND("|",__Text) - 1, [Value] = __Count,__Len, FIND(__Separator,__Text,__Start)-1 ) VAR __Word = MID(__Text,__Start,__End - __Start + 1) RETURN __Word ), "__Key", SWITCH(TRUE(), SEARCH("day",[__Word],,0)>0,"day", SEARCH("hour",[__Word],,0)>0,"hour", SEARCH("minute",[__Word],,0)>0,"minute", SEARCH("second",[__Word],,0)>0,"second", BLANK() ) ) VAR __Days = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[Value] = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[__Key]="day"),[Value]) - 1),[__Word])+0 VAR __Hours = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[Value] = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[__Key]="hour"),[Value]) - 1),[__Word])+0 VAR __Minutes = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[Value] = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[__Key]="minute"),[Value]) - 1),[__Word])+0 VAR __Seconds = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[Value] = MAXX(FILTER(__Table,[__Key]="second"),[Value]) - 1),[__Word])+0 RETURN __Days * 1000000 + __Hours * 10000 + __Minutes * 100 + __SecondsMost of the code is just Text to Table, which I should have thought about to begin with. And posted to the gallery here: Text Duration Conversion - Microsoft Power BI Community
kenwilsonii
3 years agoFrequent Visitor
Format text as HH:MM:SS and then use Duration.FromText