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Las
4 years agoFrequent Visitor
Converting Text Column having Text and Scientific Notation
Hi Experts, I'm having a text columns with numbers, text and scientific notation, example as follows 202-203 2320042 AH3021 F21A-001 1.00E+11 In a situation like this how to handle the d...
Vijay_A_Verma
4 years agoMost Valuable Professional
It all depends upon what you want to downstream. Formatting is something which is not important in mashing up data unless needed.
Hence, if in the downstream, you want to extract numbers, you can have following formula
= try Number.From([Column1]) otherwise Number.From(Text.Select([Column1],{"0".."9"}))But it all depends what you want to do.