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Several separators with CSV.Documes in New Column
Good morning
I hope they are very well and I am looking for guidance again.
I connect to a folder that has several CSV files, the problem comes at the time of separating them because some has as a separator, and others;
If I call a personalized column as I can use CSV.Documes to indicate several separators to the function.
Any help will be important. Thank you
Hi jcamilo1985
You can try below code to create a custom column.
if Table.ColumnCount(Csv.Document([Content],[Delimiter=","])) > 1 then Csv.Document([Content],[Delimiter=","]) else Csv.Document([Content],[Delimiter=";"])Below is the full M code of my sample. You can paste it into a blank query to check the result.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8i9KSS3ydNHxLEnNjckz1HHLLM7IzEtXKMpPickz0jFUyEnSUyjPL8otVorVgSu3hig3tkZRbmKNojwWAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if Table.ColumnCount(Csv.Document([Column1],[Delimiter=","])) > 1 then Csv.Document([Column1],[Delimiter=","]) else Csv.Document([Column1],[Delimiter=";"])) in #"Added Custom"Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
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Hi jcamilo1985
You can try below code to create a custom column.
if Table.ColumnCount(Csv.Document([Content],[Delimiter=","])) > 1 then Csv.Document([Content],[Delimiter=","]) else Csv.Document([Content],[Delimiter=";"])Below is the full M code of my sample. You can paste it into a blank query to check the result.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8i9KSS3ydNHxLEnNjckz1HHLLM7IzEtXKMpPickz0jFUyEnSUyjPL8otVorVgSu3hig3tkZRbmKNojwWAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if Table.ColumnCount(Csv.Document([Column1],[Delimiter=","])) > 1 then Csv.Document([Column1],[Delimiter=","]) else Csv.Document([Column1],[Delimiter=";"])) in #"Added Custom"Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
If this post helps, please Accept it as Solution to help other members find it.Thank you very much for the answer, it really works, I was hoping that the csv.document function would manually admit the option of several separators as it says in the documentation so as not to have to resort to an if, but the solution is good, thank you very much again
