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AlyafeiAli
2 years agoFrequent Visitor
How to extract coordinates from a column in Power Query
Hi! I'm trying to extract Longtitude and Latitude from the column "text" as shown below. Kindly note that there will be wrong coordinates, so latitude should strictly start with 22. , 23. , 24...
- 2 years ago
Hi AlyafeiAli
I'm sure there's other ways to do it but I'm very tired after a long day so I quickly put this together
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"text", type text}}), #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type",",",".",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"text"}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Value", "Lat", each if Text.Contains([text], "22.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "22."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "23.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "23."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "24.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "24."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "25.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "25."), 7) else null), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Long", each if Text.Contains([text], "51.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "51."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "52.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "52."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "53.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "53."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "54.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "54."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "55.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "55."), 7) else if Text.Contains([text], "55.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "55."), 7) else null) in #"Added Custom1"Regards
Phil
- 2 years ago
Hi AlyafeiAli, different approach here:
Result with correct order Lat and Long
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("VY5BCsIwEEWvMnRdgsaZJrmDK7dtF5UOGGiSkqTi8R0tQl3O5837v++ba8ocwK9lCzCnJWUovsIUuA5RoyJrHQKhOmtCi3DAh/jPN2P702mtiNAAaWVdR7D6FXwsdVoWIKdIosrl+LEP0KTQWClqpbGjT6P5Qjd+ci48A5EsuSBBSYFF8qogK501okz1wXnPpjhD3MJdbjopxGYc3w==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [text = _t]), Helper = [ lat = List.Transform({22..25}, Number.ToText), long = List.Transform({51..56}, Number.ToText) ], Ad_LatLong = Table.AddColumn(Source, "LatLong", each [ a = Text.SplitAny([text], "#(lf) ,"), b = List.Select(a, (x)=> List.Contains(Helper[lat] & Helper[long], x, (y,z)=> Text.StartsWith(z,y))), c = if Value.FromText(b{0}, "en-US") < Value.FromText(b{1}, "en-US") then b else List.Reverse(b), //lat and long correct order d = Text.Combine(c, "|") ][d], type text ), SplitColumnByDelimiter = Table.SplitColumn(Ad_LatLong, "LatLong", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("|", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Lat", "Long"}) in SplitColumnByDelimiter
PhilipTreacy
2 years agoSuper User
Hi AlyafeiAli
I'm sure there's other ways to do it but I'm very tired after a long day so I quickly put this together
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"text", type text}}),
#"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type",",",".",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"text"}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Value", "Lat", each if Text.Contains([text], "22.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "22."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "23.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "23."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "24.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "24."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "25.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "25."), 7) else
null),
#"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Long", each if Text.Contains([text], "51.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "51."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "52.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "52."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "53.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "53."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "54.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "54."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "55.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "55."), 7) else
if Text.Contains([text], "55.") then Text.Middle([text], Text.PositionOf([text], "55."), 7) else
null)
in
#"Added Custom1"
Regards
Phil
- AlyafeiAli2 years agoFrequent Visitor
Hi PhilipTreacy
Thank you so much for the solution, I really appreciate it!
As for your question, I'm not on the Beta channel so I can't use regex just yet.
Thanks again 👍😊