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FreemanZ
Super User
Super User

How to convert txt (with blocks of variable length) to a table

Hi Community, 

 

I was trying to sort the kindle notes by booktitle. My notes look like:

 

booktitle1
AA
booktitle2
BB
CC
booktitle1
DD
booktitle1
EE
booktitle2
FF

or in table like:

booktitle1

AA
booktitle2
BB
CC
booktitle1
DD
booktitle1
EE
booktitle2
FF

 

I need to sort them by booktitle to a table like:

 

booktitle1

AA
DD
FF
booktitle2
BB
CC
EE

 

The tricky part is sometimes a note has multiple rows, like the BB CC note. 

 
Could anyone help with this challenge?
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ThxAlot
Super User
Super User

Simple enough

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WSsrPzy7JLMlJNVSK1YlWcnQEU3BRIzDXyQlMOTujSkK0uLhgE3V1xWaQm5tSbCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Note = _t]),

    Grouped1 = Table.Group(Source, "Note", {"grp", Table.Skip}, 0, (x,y) => Byte.From(Text.Contains(y, "title", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))),
    #"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(Grouped1,{{"Note", Order.Ascending}}),
    Grouped2 = Table.Group(#"Sorted Rows", "Note", {"aggr", each Table.Combine([grp])[Note]}, 1),
    #"Combined Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Grouped2, Table.ColumnNames(Grouped2), each {_{0}} & _{1}, "Notes"),
    #"Expanded Notes" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Combined Columns", "Notes")
in
    #"Expanded Notes"

 

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