Replacing Text within each cell of a column

[martindoll]

I have been trying to get something to work all day.  In Transforming data in Power QUery, I need to replace vlaues.

Example:

Column1 has a combination of 85 possible values.

I need to go through each row of the column and Replace the value of each cell.

If I create 85 Replace Values, it exceeds the query limit.

I have tried about a dozen different scenarios I have searched for....none of them work for me.

Sample of the data

Column1

100000001, 100000002

100000001

100000001,100000002,100000003

I want

100000001 = Blue

100000002 = Red

100000003 = Yellow

So when it is done, it looks like:

Column1

Blue, Red

Blue

Blue, Red, Yellow

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @martindoll ,

Combines both of the above methods:

let
    ToRows = Table.ToRows( Parameter ),
    Outcome =
        List.Accumulate(
            ToRows,
            SourceTable,
            (x, y) =>
                Table.ReplaceValue(
                    x,
                    y{0},
                    y{1},
                    Replacer.ReplaceText,
                    {"Column1"}
                )
        )
in
    Outcome

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[Omid_Motamedise]

You can solve this problem in several ways, whihc using List.Accumulate for running over the replaces pairs can be helpfull as follow.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjSAAEMdBRjTSClWB0kClacDVwVnGSvFxgIA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    Replace = Table.TransformColumns(Source,{{"Column1", each List.Accumulate({{"100000001","Blue"},{"100000002","Red"},{"100000003","Yellow"}},_,(a,b)=>Text.Replace(a,b{0},b{1})), type text}})
in
    Replace

 which results in 

If you need to know more about this function jucst see my video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8PRbWuDcmQ

[Ahmedx]

pls try this

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjSAAEMdBRjTSClWB0kClacDVwVnGSvFxgIA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
 dict = List.Buffer( Table.ToList(DimColor,(x)=>x)),
 f = (x)=> Text.Combine( List.Transform( Text.Split(x,","), (x)=> List.Skip(dict,(y)=>not Text.Contains(x,y{0})){0}?{1}?),","),
 to = Table.TransformColumns(Source,{"Column1",f})
in
to

[lbendlin]

Note that this will fail if there isn't a color for a certain data item.

Data:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjSAAEMdBRjTSClWB0kClacDVwVnGSvFxgIA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(Source, "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Index", {{"Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv), let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "Column1"),
    #"Trimmed Text" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Column1", Text.Trim, type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Trimmed Text", "Color", (k)=> Table.SelectRows(Replace, each [Value]=k[Column1])[Color]?{0}?,type text),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Added Custom", {"Index"}, {{"Column1", each Text.Combine([Color],", "), type text}})
in
    #"Grouped Rows"

Replace:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjSAAEMlHSWnnNJUpVgdhKARUDAoNQVFzBgoFpmak5NfrhQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Value = _t, Color = _t])
in
    Source

You may also need to wrap the Replace table in a Table.Buffer.

[martindoll]

Thanks for all the replies.....I needed to use the first suggestion because the parameters change and I needed it easy for end users to update....thanks to everyone.