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Mederic
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2 years ago
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Hello everyone, How can I get the result in the image below? I actually have a table with several columns and around 2000 rows. The problem here is that I'm looking for a word in a group of words ...
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  • ronrsnfld's avatar
    ronrsnfld
    2 years ago

    You implied you wanted to hard-code the excludes within the M-Code itself. So perhaps

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("jZBBDoIwEEWvMum6lxA9gHFjDGFRywCVOkOmJYbb2xYMxpXbn/cmL1PX6qC0uqH3/ALuIMykwRoBRyDYaqi8sSN0LECuH6Jq9KqcHY1g2bNoWFbdBeiyThyzftl1Jr8U0yTzOriIMJkJBQy1GzIZigNKoapE9YKYbrEY6hEes7NY6LSvp+w/0PGn9GmWO269OhcChIExfEJT9hOpqKevv0hGy9qmNWt7eIiLR9U0bw==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Ref = _t, Color = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Ref", type text}, {"Color", type text}}),
    
    #"Select by Criteria" = Table.SelectRows(
        #"Changed Type",
        each not List.Contains({"A","D"},[Ref],Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
             and not List.ContainsAny(Splitter.SplitTextByAnyDelimiter({" ",","})
                    ([Color]),{"pink","yellow"},Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
                
    )
in
    #"Select by Criteria"
Mederic's avatar
Mederic
Post Patron
2 years ago

Hello ronrsnfld ,

Thank you for your time,
It's perfect, it works very well 😊,

I'd be interested to see AlienSx's proposal based on a table of criteria.

I'm going to work on it this evening at home to see if I can adapt his code ğŸ˜Š

Best regards

ronrsnfld's avatar
ronrsnfld
Super User
2 years ago

It is trivial to modify my routine if you want to use a Table as a data source for the filter.

 

Assume we have a table named "Filter" that looks like:

Two small changes in the M-Code to reference the Filter table and relevant column:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("jZBBDoIwEEWvMum6lxA9gHFjDGFRywCVOkOmJYbb2xYMxpXbn/cmL1PX6qC0uqH3/ALuIMykwRoBRyDYaqi8sSN0LECuH6Jq9KqcHY1g2bNoWFbdBeiyThyzftl1Jr8U0yTzOriIMJkJBQy1GzIZigNKoapE9YKYbrEY6hEes7NY6LSvp+w/0PGn9GmWO269OhcChIExfEJT9hOpqKevv0hGy9qmNWt7eIiLR9U0bw==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Ref = _t, Color = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Ref", type text}, {"Color", type text}}),
    
    #"Select by Criteria" = Table.SelectRows(
        #"Changed Type",
        each not List.Contains(Filter[Ref],[Ref],Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
             and not List.ContainsAny(Splitter.SplitTextByAnyDelimiter({" ",","})
                    ([Color]),Filter[Color],Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
                
    )
in
    #"Select by Criteria"

 

  • Mederic's avatar
    Mederic
    Post Patron
    2 years ago

    Hello ronrsnfld ,

    Thank you for this proposal based on a table of criteria, it's perfect.
    In my real file I have a few cells with the slash symbol / (see screenshot)
    It's very easy to add it to your code and it works very well

    Thanks again

    Best regards