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I need to replace ":" with "" in column names but in a nested table (that I cannot expand yet)... 2 problems:
1) How do I get a nested table as table (1st argument of Table.TransformColumnNames)
2) Then how do i actually get the column names' text replaced
I tried along these lines:
= Table.TransformColumnNames( Table.Column(AddRemovedTopRowHeaderPromoted,"Ranges"), Text.Replace(_,":",""))
and
= Table.TransformColumnNames( Table.FromList(RemovedTopRowPromotedHeaders[Data], Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error), (_) as text => Text.Clean(Text.Replace(_,":","")))
and
RecordsToList = Table.AddColumn(#"Removed Other Columns1", "RecordsToList", each Record.ToList([Data]{1})),
RenRecordsToList = Table.AddColumn(RecordsToList, "RenRecordsToList", each List.ReplaceValue([RecordsToList],":","", Replacer.ReplaceText)),
Custom2 = Table.RenameColumns([Data], [RecordsToList],[RenRecordsToList] ),
AddRemTopRowHeaderPromoted = Table.AddColumn(Custom2, "Ranges", each Table.PromoteHeaders( Table.Skip([Data],1))),
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @ooptennoort ,
Ok, so there's two stages to this. The first is to perform the dynamic column name changes, the second is to then apply that to a nested table.
So, to do the dynamic change, you would use something like this:
= Table.RenameColumns(
prevStep,
List.Zip(
{
Table.ColumnNames(prevStep),
List.Transform(Table.ColumnNames(prevStep), each Text.Replace(_, ":", ""))
}
)
)
Now, to apply that to the nested tables, we need to wrap the whole lot in a Table.TransformColumns and change relevant references to the previous step ('prevStep') to the access operator ('_'):
Table.TransformColumns(
prevStep,
{
"nestedTableColumnName",
each Table.RenameColumns(
_,
List.Zip(
{
Table.ColumnNames(_),
List.Transform(Table.ColumnNames(_), each Text.Replace(_, ":", ""))
}
)
)
}
)
Full example query to turn this:
...into this:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUSouKU1LU4rVgfBKMjLz0ovh3MyS1FwIzwjIy80vSlVAqIcLIWmCi0F1xgIA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, Column_Name = _t]),
groupRows = Table.Group(Source, {"ID"}, {{"data", each _, type table [ID=nullable text, Column_Name=nullable text]}}),
renameNestedColumns = Table.TransformColumns(
groupRows,
{
"data",
each Table.RenameColumns(
_,
List.Zip(
{
Table.ColumnNames(_),
List.Transform(Table.ColumnNames(_), each Text.Replace(_, "_", "____"))
}
)
)
}
),
expandNestedData = Table.ExpandTableColumn(renameNestedColumns, "data", {"Column____Name"}, {"Column____Name"})
in
expandNestedData
Pete
Proud to be a Datanaut!
Wow, thank you!!! List.Zip! Will need to study closer how you did it! Thx
Hi @ooptennoort ,
Ok, so there's two stages to this. The first is to perform the dynamic column name changes, the second is to then apply that to a nested table.
So, to do the dynamic change, you would use something like this:
= Table.RenameColumns(
prevStep,
List.Zip(
{
Table.ColumnNames(prevStep),
List.Transform(Table.ColumnNames(prevStep), each Text.Replace(_, ":", ""))
}
)
)
Now, to apply that to the nested tables, we need to wrap the whole lot in a Table.TransformColumns and change relevant references to the previous step ('prevStep') to the access operator ('_'):
Table.TransformColumns(
prevStep,
{
"nestedTableColumnName",
each Table.RenameColumns(
_,
List.Zip(
{
Table.ColumnNames(_),
List.Transform(Table.ColumnNames(_), each Text.Replace(_, ":", ""))
}
)
)
}
)
Full example query to turn this:
...into this:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUSouKU1LU4rVgfBKMjLz0ovh3MyS1FwIzwjIy80vSlVAqIcLIWmCi0F1xgIA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, Column_Name = _t]),
groupRows = Table.Group(Source, {"ID"}, {{"data", each _, type table [ID=nullable text, Column_Name=nullable text]}}),
renameNestedColumns = Table.TransformColumns(
groupRows,
{
"data",
each Table.RenameColumns(
_,
List.Zip(
{
Table.ColumnNames(_),
List.Transform(Table.ColumnNames(_), each Text.Replace(_, "_", "____"))
}
)
)
}
),
expandNestedData = Table.ExpandTableColumn(renameNestedColumns, "data", {"Column____Name"}, {"Column____Name"})
in
expandNestedData
Pete
Proud to be a Datanaut!
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