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Wahid777
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5 years ago
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Creating a conditional column with boolean (Yes/No) result for matching partial text matches

Hi   I've got a column listed as below and I'm trying to create a new column (with a Yes/No or True/False response) if some matches of certain keywords are found in the original column. Would "CONT...
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    v-alq-msft
    5 years ago

    Hi, Wahid777 

     

    Based on your description, I created data to reproduce your scenario. The pbix file is attached in the end.

    Table1:

     

    Table2:

     

    You may create a custom column with the following codes.

    if List.ContainsAny(Text.Split([Original column]," "),Table2[Keywords],Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
then "Yes" else "No"

     

    Result:

     

    Best Regards

    Allan

     

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Jimmy801
Community Champion
5 years ago

Hello Wahid777 

 

you can use a combination of List.Transform, List.AnyTrue and Text.Contains. Here the example

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Pc0xDsIwEETRq4xccwmEKAggihAEilwYZ1Fc2BvtusC3x7FE6vdHM47mKuh4TgiKPBMOxxv4g6+xu2qKS0mbPYInLEIaJkp5zV4tu3P8Jy6+naqbWFYe+j0yNxjOLe1IpGxfHBeXCnryQtlVqJsnTskba38=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Original column" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Original column", type text}}),
    CheckWords = Table.AddColumn
    (
        #"Changed Type",
        "Check",
        (add)=> List.AnyTrue(List.Transform({"Ambassador","CEO","Chief Executive Officer","Chief Financial Officer","CFO"}, each Text.Contains(Text.Upper(add[Original column]), Text.Upper(_))))
    )
in
    CheckWords

 

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