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Iamnvt
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7 years ago
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Merge by Text Contain Any

hi,   I have 2 tables: Column1 A, B B, D E, F   and    Column1Column2 A 12 E 22 D 10   how can I merge the 2 tables together, as long as the text from table 1 co...
  • Nolock's avatar
    7 years ago

    Hi Iamnvt,

    here we go:

     

    Table TableWordValue:

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSUTI0UorViVZyBTKNIEwXkKiBUmwsAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Word = _t, Value = _t])
    in
        Source

    And the logic is in the other table TablePairs:

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WctRRcFKK1YlWctJRcAEzXHUU3JRiYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
        // duplicate the column Column1
        DuplicateColumn = Table.DuplicateColumn(Source, "Column1", "ToSplit"),
        // split the column by ", "
        Split = Table.SplitColumn(DuplicateColumn, "ToSplit", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(", "), {"First", "Second"}),
        // join on first column with TableWordValue table
        FirstJoin = Table.Join(Split, "First", TableWordValue, "Word", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
        RemoveWordColumn = Table.RemoveColumns(FirstJoin, {"Word"}),
        RenameValueColumn = Table.RenameColumns(RemoveWordColumn, {{"Value", "First.Value"}}),
        // join on second column with TableWordValue table
        SecondJoin = Table.Join(RenameValueColumn, "Second", TableWordValue, "Word", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
        RemoveWordColumn2 = Table.RemoveColumns(SecondJoin, {"Word"}),
        RenameValueColumn2 = Table.RenameColumns(RemoveWordColumn2, {{"Value", "Second.Value"}}),
        // create result column as combination of First and Second values
        ValueOfValueColumn = Table.AddColumn(RenameValueColumn2, "Result", each if [First.Value] = null then [Second.Value] else [First.Value]),
        // remove temp columns
        RemoveValues = Table.RemoveColumns(ValueOfValueColumn, {"First.Value", "Second.Value", "First", "Second"})  
    in
        RemoveValues