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Power M - Find Numbers Before Specific Text
Hello, I am looking to extract numbers before specific text ("BUP"). I think it is possible we may need to address " BUP" specifically, as users would likely put a space between number and "BUP". E...
Use this in a custom column
= if Text.End([Data],3)="BUP" then Text.Replace(List.Last(Text.Split(Text.Select(Text.Replace([Data]," BUP","BUP"),{"0".."9"," ","B","U","P"})," ")),"BUP","") else 0Full test code
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjFQcAoNUIrViVZy8PF3dgzx9PdTMDKFC2ak5uTkx5fnF+WkoCoyMoUpMTGNKTUwMDKDkHDNsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Data = _t]), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each if Text.End([Data],3)="BUP" then Text.Replace(List.Last(Text.Split(Text.Select(Text.Replace([Data]," BUP","BUP"),{"0".."9"," ","B","U","P"})," ")),"BUP","") else 0, type number) in #"Added Custom"
Vijay_A_Verma - This solution works perfectly (per my description) but it encounters an issue that I didn't anticipate:
"45&& 25 BUP" = "4525 BUP" (with your solution). Ideally it would return "25 BUP".
Is there a way to ammend the code so it will only capture numbers before the string "BUP"? Once a non-number field is encountered, it will not return subsequent characters.
Thank you so much for your help! You're a life saver : )
Use this in a custom column
= if Text.End([Data],3)="BUP" then Text.Replace(List.Last(Text.Split(Text.Select(Text.Replace([Data]," BUP","BUP"),{"0".."9"," ","B","U","P"})," ")),"BUP","") else 0Full test code
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjFQcAoNUIrViVZy8PF3dgzx9PdTMDKFC2ak5uTkx5fnF+WkoCoyMoUpMTGNKTUwMDKDkHDNsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Data = _t]),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each if Text.End([Data],3)="BUP" then Text.Replace(List.Last(Text.Split(Text.Select(Text.Replace([Data]," BUP","BUP"),{"0".."9"," ","B","U","P"})," ")),"BUP","") else 0, type number)
in
#"Added Custom"