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Hello,
I need help. I am using a table to create a new column that checks a column named Value for a consonant. If it contains a consonant, the column is true. Otherwise, it is false.
The formula works in the screenshot below, but it still shows an error on some that should be true.
When I clicked on the error, I got the following: It is registered as false, but PowerBI can not convert the type over.
Below is my code for the column( I shortened it to letters b and z, but it follows the same pattern b-z, no vowels included):
= Table.AddColumn(#"Filtered Rows", "Consonant Passed", each if Text.Contains([Value], "b", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)= true then true else if Text.Contains([Value] = "z", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)= true then true else false)
Solved! Go to Solution.
Use this
List.ContainsAny(Text.ToList(Text.Lower([Value])), List.Difference({"b".."z"}, {"e", "i", "o", "u"}))
Easy enough if you can incorportate python script,
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCslILUpVyCxWyMsvycjMS1eK1YlWSkpOUUhLz1DIys4B8/MVMksVEhUUUpViYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Value = _t]),
#"Run Python script" = Python.Execute("dataset['consonant'] = dataset['Value'].str.contains(r'[^aeiou ]',case=False,regex=True)",[dataset=Source]),
dataset = #"Run Python script"{[Name="dataset"]}[Value],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(dataset,{{"consonant", type logical}})
in
#"Changed Type"
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Just remove both of the "= true", because that's already implied by the via function return value--in other words, if text contains this then do this else do that.
--Nate
You can use this in a custom column
List.ContainsAny(Text.ToList([Value]), List.Difference({"b".."z"}, {"e", "i", "o", "u"}, Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
That removes errors, which is excellent, but still created some false positives.
All the false positives are capital letters; they need to be case-insensitive.
Use this
List.ContainsAny(Text.ToList(Text.Lower([Value])), List.Difference({"b".."z"}, {"e", "i", "o", "u"}))
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