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Damian89
5 years agoNew Member
Replace numeric values with NULL in power query
Hi all, I'd like to ged rid of all numbers from cells in the table1 as shown below. For now i have something like this, but i think there is better way to do it 😁 #"Replaced V...
- 5 years ago
Hello Damian89
the simplest way to remove numbers is to use Text.Remove and indicating 0 - 9 in the second parameter
Text.Remove(text,{"0".."9"})Here a complete example where I included this function into a Table.TranformColumns. You can also create a new column.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Pcy7CQAhEATQVpaNjY792IsYCLqBXiZcaTZgY6cGZjOPYULAOXrLVh2knm2OxkKQNr5LiTC6gMIkJPDsSU+WD+7ivedbipUPllxQPVFVmfn8Y4w/", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Table1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Table1", type text}}), GetRidOfNumber = Table.TransformColumns ( #"Changed Type", { { "Table1", (text)=> Text.Remove(text,{"0".."9"}) } } ) in GetRidOfNumberCopy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.
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JW_van_Holst
5 years agoResolver IV
There is:
Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Text.Combine( List.RemoveItems(Text.ToList([Column1]),{"1".."9"})))TimoRiikonen
2 years agoAdvocate V
Short sentence and works, but I needed to fix it to this version
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Column2", each if [Column] = null then [Column] else Text.Combine( List.RemoveItems(Text.ToList([Column]),{"0".."9"})), type text)