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Find nth occurrence of a string

Hi folks,   I have been trying to find any resource that would explain how to get nth occurrence of a string in Power Query and this seems no easy task. There are lots of examples how to find nth c...
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    4 years ago

    Actually this is fairly easy as Text.BeforeDelimiter offers you the choice to control the no. of occurence of the delimiter (on 0 basis. Hence, for 2nd occurrence, you will have to use 1). Use below formula. This would give the result of 8.

    = Text.Length(Text.BeforeDelimiter([Column1],"---",1))
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4 years ago

Actually this is fairly easy as Text.BeforeDelimiter offers you the choice to control the no. of occurence of the delimiter (on 0 basis. Hence, for 2nd occurrence, you will have to use 1). Use below formula. This would give the result of 8.

= Text.Length(Text.BeforeDelimiter([Column1],"---",1))