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Detecting position of Case Change within a String in Column of data
Hi All.
I have a series of thousands of User Names in a table column and the format is inconsistent and I am cleaning them up in M.
So I am replacing things like "." with " " or "," with "" or changing all the strings which are entirely lowercase to Proper Case etc.
One of the remaining challenges is detecting where there is a change of Case and I want to add a space.
i.e. "SmithJ" I want to be changed to "Smith J" or "FredSmith" I want to be changed to "Fred Smith" to make the format consistent.
Since there are no wildcard options for case, and the position is completely random, struggling to think of a simple solution.
Any suggestions? Happy for a solution in either M or DAX.
Thanks in advance.
Text.Combine(Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition({"a".."z"},{"A".."Z"})("SmithJ")," ")
4 Replies
- wdx223_Daniel
Community Champion
Text.Combine(Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition({"a".."z"},{"A".."Z"})("SmithJ")," ")
Thanks I didn't see that prebuilt option in the Menu
- AlexisOlson
Super User
Split Column > By Lowercase to Uppercase would be the analogous option.
Side note: Be careful with names like McCall or MacBride.
Yes thanks. I already detected the Mc issue but hadnt thought of Mac.
