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Imposed
3 years agoFrequent Visitor
How to replace specific values with null in a column
Hello! I would like to replace the values that have 5 numbers in them with "null" and keep the ones with 2-3 numbers. How would i proceed with that?
- 3 years ago
Hi Imposed ,
you can do a dummy-replace-operation on that column and then tweak the resulting M-code a bit:
Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type", each [Column1], each if Text.Length([Column1]) > 3 then null else [Column1], Replacer.ReplaceValue, {"Column1"} )
I have described this method here: Table.TransformColumns - alternative in PowerBI and PowerQuery in Excel (thebiccountant.com)
Or you paste hte following code into the advanced editor and follow the steps:let Source = Table.FromRows( Json.Document( Binary.Decompress( Binary.FromText("i45WMjQAAqVYnWglIzjLEEobmxqCaVMzc6XYWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate ) ), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t] ), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source, {{"Column1", type text}}), #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue( #"Changed Type", each [Column1], each if Text.Length([Column1]) > 3 then null else [Column1], Replacer.ReplaceValue, {"Column1"} ) in #"Replaced Value"Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type", each [Column1], each if Text.Length([Column1]) > 3 then null else [Column1], Replacer.ReplaceValue, {"Column1"} )
slorin
3 years agoSuper User
Hi
..., each if Text.Length([Custom]) > 4 then null else [Custom], ...
Stéphane