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Son_Of_William
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How to select mutiple items from a List

Hi there,

 

 I am trying to narrow down a list using a couple of criteria using Text. Contains I have used the below formula but no luck so far

 

          = List.Select(Custom2, each Text.Contains(_,"Project"),and Text.Contains(_,"Books"))

 

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AlienSx
Super User
Super User

Hi, replace comma with space over here

 

"Project"),and

 

as an option consider this line of code

= List.Select(Source, (x) => List.Contains({"Books", "Project"}, x, (w, z) => Text.Contains(z, w)))

 

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Son_Of_William
Frequent Visitor

thanks a lot, the initial solution brought a blank list but when I changed "and" to "or" it totally worked. 

AlienSx
Super User
Super User

Hi, replace comma with space over here

 

"Project"),and

 

as an option consider this line of code

= List.Select(Source, (x) => List.Contains({"Books", "Project"}, x, (w, z) => Text.Contains(z, w)))

 

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