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Anonymous
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2 years ago

Extract specific text from a column

Hello,   I have a column with some values    Exemple :    P1,A,P2 P2,B,C,P1 P3,A,P1,D,E,G   Etc ...   I only want to extract P1, P2 and P3 (the result of what i want to extract is known) ...
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tackytechtom
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2 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,


Here one way of doing this:

 

Here the code in Power Query M that you can paste into the advanced editor (if you do not know, how to exactly do this, please check out this quick walkthrough)

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCjDUcdQJMFKK1QGyjXScdJx1AgwhPGOQjKGOi46rjrtSbCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [column = _t]),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each Text.Split([column], ",")),
    #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom"),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Expanded Custom", each Text.Contains([Custom], "P1") or Text.Contains([Custom], "P2") or Text.Contains([Custom], "P3")),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Filtered Rows", {"column"}, {{"newcolumn", each Text.Combine( [Custom], ","), type text}}
)
in
    #"Grouped Rows"

 

Let me know, if this helps 🙂

 

/Tom
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