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a_m_wood
2 years agoRegular Visitor
Problem with extracting multiple substrings from a text field
Hi, I'm trying to extract any occurences of text starting with the patter "-W" in a field "Name" I'm getting an error on record 2 Expression.Error: The 'count' argument is out of range. ...
- 2 years ago
Hi a_m_wood, check this
Result
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCknNLchJVQguUQhOTVcwNFDQVQg3NDExA9JBIW6G5uYmCpWpJQol+QpJqQoFRZnJqSlKsTrRSk6picn5eQpBKcj6zC0twJIhqcUlCrrhhkbGJgqJSckpIElTM3MLhdS09Ayl2FgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t]), Ad_ExtractedW = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Extracted W", each [ a = List.Combine(List.Transform({"- W", "-W"}, (x)=> Text.PositionOf([Name], x, Occurrence.All))), b = List.Transform(a, (x)=> Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.Trim(Text.Range([Name], x), {" ", "-"}), " ")) ][b], type list) in Ad_ExtractedW