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Anonymous
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Need Help in Data Formating

Hello,

 

I have a column that contains special character as well as middle space and number, i am looking to extract only number without getting any middle space in it.

 

Please help, i tried all method to get the same.

 

Suresh

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Hi  @Anonymous ,

 

Because your data contains 2 types of data which causes such error,using below expression instead:

= Table.TransformColumnTypes(Table.AddColumn(#"Appended Query", "Custom", each Text.Select(Text.From([Column1]),{"0".."9"})),{{"Custom", Int64.Type}})

And you will see:

vkellymsft_0-1632191134961.png

 

For the related .pbix file,pls see attached.

 

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Kelly

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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous Well, in that particular case you could do:

Text.Replace(Text.Middle([Column1],1,10)," ","")


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Hi Sir,

 

My reference column is "Ref ID" from where i am trying you extract only number, however not able to go through form both solution i tried - "Solution 1" and "Solution 2".

 

Below which i tried...

=Text.Replace(Text.Middle([Ref ID],1,10)," ","")),

= Text.Select([Ref ID],{"0".."9"}))

 

Please help.

 

Thanks

Hi  @Anonymous ,

 

Because your data contains 2 types of data which causes such error,using below expression instead:

= Table.TransformColumnTypes(Table.AddColumn(#"Appended Query", "Custom", each Text.Select(Text.From([Column1]),{"0".."9"})),{{"Custom", Int64.Type}})

And you will see:

vkellymsft_0-1632191134961.png

 

For the related .pbix file,pls see attached.

 

Best Regards,
Kelly

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=Text.Remove(Text.From([Ref ID]??"")," ")

If you change [Ref ID] column type to text, it should work.

or

= Text.Select( Text.From ( [ #"Ref ID" ]) , {"0".."9"} )

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@Anonymous Sample data?



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Sir, its like (0012345 78A. In this we have special character and albhabet as well as spacin between.

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