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Split a column in letters and numbers
- 1 year ago
Hi ThomasWeppler,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.
I would like to acknowledge and thank both super users mdaatifraza5556, and jennratten, for their valuable responses. They have provided reliable solutions using Text.Select, which is an effective and robust method for extracting numeric and alphabetic characters, even when numbers are absent in the strin
To summarize:- Text.Select([Specifications], {"0".."9"}) extracts only digits.
- Text.Select([Specifications], {"A".."Z", "a".."z"}) extracts only letters.
These methods guarantee consistent results regardless of the string's structure.
Additionally, if you need to extract leading numbers (i.e., numbers only at the start of the string), you might consider using a regular expression approach with Text.RegexMatch and Text.RegexReplace.
kindly please refer to the below following links:
Number.FromText - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Learn
Text.Select - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Learn
Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Learn
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Hey ThomasWeppler , the solutions provided with Text.Select will work, unless you have multiple sections of numbers and letter (like aaa123bbb). So beware...
This will also work, and the result will be like
for num col 123 and text col "aaabbb"