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SamWhite
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Extract substring from a string with random position

I have a excel column from which I need to extract XYZ12345671, XYZ12389782 and XYZ12389893 which can occur anywhere in the column like below:

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How can I accomplish this using Power Query. I want to extract it to a new column. The pattern is XYZ followed by 8 numbers

 

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= Table.AddColumn(PriorStepOrTableName, "ID", each Text.Range([Details], Text.PositionOf([Details], "XYZ"), 11))

 

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Anonymous
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= Table.AddColumn(PriorStepOrTableName, "ID", each Text.Range([Details], Text.PositionOf([Details], "XYZ"), 11))

 

--Nate

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