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aqeel_shaikh
2 years agoHelper III
How to Remove special character from Alphanumeric character
In the case study, i want to remove special character which is "-" hyphen if it is coming between Alphanumeric character. if it is between numeric should not be removed. can you please help me w...
- 2 years ago
Hi aqeel_shaikh, check this.
Result
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WioiM0jXUdXR2UYrViVYyNDLWNTE10wWKKsXGAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), Ad_Cleaned = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Cleaned", each [ lst = {"0".."9"}, a1 = Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition(each true, (x)=> not List.Contains(lst, x))([Column1]), a2 = Text.Combine(List.RemoveItems(a1, {"-"})), b1 = Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition((x)=> not List.Contains(lst, x), each true)(a2), b2 = Text.Combine(List.RemoveItems(b1, {"-"})) ][b2], type text) in Ad_Cleaned - 2 years ago
Try this:
let Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("C:\Users\s441801\OneDrive - Emirates Group\General - AQEEL\Power query\POWER Q TEST SAMPLE.xlsx"), null, true), Sheet1_Sheet = Source{[Item="Sheet1",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data], Ad_Cleaned = Table.AddColumn(Sheet1_Sheet, "Cleaned", each [ lst = {"0".."9"}, a1 = Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition(each true, (x)=> not List.Contains(lst, x))([Column1]), a2 = Text.Combine(List.RemoveItems(a1, {"-"})), b1 = Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition((x)=> not List.Contains(lst, x), each true)(a2), b2 = Text.Combine(List.RemoveItems(b1, {"-"})) ][b2], type text) in Ad_Cleaned
dufoq3
2 years agoCommunity Champion
You should provide new sample data with expected result because there can be many variants.
aqeel_shaikh
2 years agoHelper III
dufoq3 ,
My sample data is
1234-567-AB$C#DEF-123
expectation is to remove bold special character in RED and provide this result "1234-567-ABCDEF123"