Get certified for free when you join Fabric Data Days 2026 and dive into Fabric, Power BI, SQL, AI, and other essential data skills.
Join nowTry your skills in the Power BI Dataviz World Championship! Round one ends June 26. Join now
Hello,
I receive third party reports weekly and one of the columns looks like this:
In order to use in my Power BI, I need to extract or split this column so each 'charge' has its own column. Additionally, I only want the numbers to appear in the column values, while the charge name in the header, like so:
I'm not sure how to combat this because (1) the charges can be in variable positions cell-to-cell (see ex rows 2/3), (2) not all cells have the same charges (some cells can have 4 charges while some have 2), and (3) the numbers I want to extract are varying in size (i.e. they can be 6, 5, or 4 characters long).
I am very new to Power Query, but this is roughly what I believe I need:
*For new column named "Oversized Surcharges"*
If [Charge Description] contains "Oversized", then extract the numbers between "Oversized" and the first "|" after "Oversized" (Starting from the right).
How can this be done in Power Query?
Hello,
let
Source = your_table,
f = (t as text) =>
[a = Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(" | ")(t),
b = List.Transform(a, (x) => Record.AddField([], Text.AfterDelimiter(x, " "), Text.BeforeDelimiter(x, " "))),
c = Record.Combine(b)][c],
d = Table.AddColumn(Source, "d", each f([Charge Description (Example)])),
e = List.Buffer(List.Distinct(List.Combine(List.Transform(d[d], Record.FieldNames)))),
g = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(d, "d", e)
in
g
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 12 | |
| 6 | |
| 5 | |
| 5 | |
| 5 |