PowerQuery - Text before multiple Delimiters

[ngct1112]

Hi,

May I know is there any way I could split text before multiple Delimiters in one function?

Original Column	Desired Result
1 & 5	1
50 - 1000	50
1000/2000	1000
2000&5000	2000
5000/10000	5000

Great thanks!

[ngct1112]

@mahoneypat it works in my query. Very brilliant. Thanks for your help!

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

Add a step to extract the text before one of those delimiters, and then modify the code in the formula bar to look like this

= Table.TransformColumns(Source, {{"Column1", each Text.Start(_, Text.PositionOfAny(_, {"&", "/", "-"})), type text}})

Pat

[Joris_NL]

In case other people struggle with changing the 'text before delimiter' line into TransformColumns, like I did, here is some clarification: 

= Table.TransformColumns(#"NameOfPreviousQueryStep", {{"Original column you want to edit", each Text.Start(_, Text.PositionOfAny(_, {"&", "/", "-", "any other symbols"})), type text}})

So don't expect to create a new column!

[Travis_rh]

@mahoneypat ,

Two follow-on questions:

1. How might I add null handling? It seems that Power Query returns an error if it doesn't find any of the specific delimiters.
2. How would I extract the text after the first space OR after the first "-"? I used Text.Middle instead of Text.Start which works for the space, but still includes the "-" in the extracted text. 

Thank you,

-Travis

[doubleclick]

how can this be done with a multiple character string?