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Dfarn
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1 year ago
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Lead time format from text to numeric

Good morning,    I am trying to find a way to convert lead time data from what is attached to a numeric value such as the line for 6 months to be displayed as 168 days. exported data is shown below...
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  • ronrsnfld's avatar
    ronrsnfld
    1 year ago

    You need to supply an algorithm for determining that conversion or use a look up table. For example, you want 6 months to be displayed as 168 days. But various six month periods can have 182-184 days (fewer if you don't count the weekends) so it is hard to make the conversion to 168 days. Both months and years have varying number of days.

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slorin
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1 year ago

Hi Dfarn 

 

let
Source = Your_Source,
Replace_Days = Table.ReplaceValue(Source," Day(s)","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Lead Time"}),
Replace_Months = Table.ReplaceValue(Replace_Days," Month(s)","*30",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Lead Time"}),
Replace_Years = Table.ReplaceValue(Replace_Months," Year(s)","*360",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Lead Time"}),
Replace_Space = Table.ReplaceValue(Replace_Years," ","+",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Lead Time"}),
Evaluation = Table.TransformColumns(Replace_Space,{{"Lead Time", Expression.Evaluate, type text}})
in
Evaluation

Stéphane