Replace numeric values with NULL in power query

[Damian89]

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 Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Filtered Rows1","1","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value2" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value","2","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value3" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value2","3","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value4" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value3","4","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value5" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value4","5","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value6" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value5","6","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value7" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value6","7","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value8" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value7","8","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value9" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value8","9","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}), 

    #"Replaced Value0" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value9","0","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"table1"}) 

in 

    #"Replaced Value0" 

Any suggestions? 

[Jimmy801 · Accepted solution]

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
    GetRidOfNumber

Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.

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Have fun

Jimmy

[Damian89]

It works perfectly 😃

[JW_van_Holst]

There is:

Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Text.Combine( List.RemoveItems(Text.ToList([Column1]),{"1".."9"})))

[TimoRiikonen]

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)

[mahoneypat]

You can use Text.Select to keep only the characters you want in a custom column in the query editor.

= Text.Select([TextColumn], {"A".."Z", "a..z", ",", "."})

Pat