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Pulling all 10-digit from 1 Cell
Hello All,
Need help in extracting 10 digit strings from one cell.
Scope is an exported email box and needing to extract all 10-digit numbers from the Subject of the email(is collected within 1 cell in Excel). Found the below solution but need this to collect ALL of the occurrences, not just the first, and for each occurrence found it would need to make a new row.
= List.Select(List.Transform(Text.Split([TextColumn], " "), each Text.Select(_, {"0".."9"})), each Text.Length(_) = 10){0}
Is this possible?
Thank you in advance. 😁
=List.Select(Text.SplitAny([Contents],Text.Remove([Contents],{"0".."9"})),each Text.Length(_)=10)
7 Replies
- wdx223_Daniel
Community Champion
=List.Select(Text.SplitAny([Contents],Text.Remove([Contents],{"0".."9"})),each Text.Length(_)=10)
Thank you very much! This works great, now from this point I should be able to extract each record in the list into a new row in the report!
v-jingzhangCommunity Support
Hi MikeD1314
If I understand your requirement correctly, you just need to remove {0} from the end of your previous code. This will give you the complete list rather than only the first item in the list.
= List.Select(List.Transform(Text.Split([TextColumn], " "), each Text.Select(_, {"0".."9"})), each Text.Length(_) = 10)Click the Expand icon on column header of the custom column and select "Expand to New Rows" option.
You will get below result then. Is this what you are after?
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
If this post helps, please Accept it as Solution to help other members find it.Thanks v-jingzhang. I've removed the "{0}" but isnt listing all of the items needed.
This is what I'm trying to get to, but want to learn along the way.
- v-jingzhang
ronrsnfldSuper User
Depending on the nature of your data, splitting text on a space may or may not return what you need. You could have a problem if there is punctuation after a value. You will obtain better answers if you post some data as text which can be copy/pasted, along with a screenshot of your expected results from that text.
