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robinshalabh
5 years agoNew Member
Text Contains Query in power query
Dear all, I am new to M code. I am trying to create a column A based on data in Column B. Column A objective is to get column B data if Column B contains text. For e.g. if column B contains BNP, the...
- 5 years ago
Hello robinshalabh
the problem I see with the solution from Payeras_BI is if you have a column that is formated as text not as any. This would mean, everey value is text and so you will get not the desired result. When you use this formula, it should always work
let Check = try Number.From([ColumnB]) in if Check[HasError] = true then [ColumnB] else nullHere the complete code example
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcvILUIrViVYyNDIG045gEi4KJk3BpJlSbCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ColumnB = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ColumnB", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "ColumnA", each let Check = try Number.From([ColumnB]) in if Check[HasError] = true then [ColumnB] else null) in #"Added Custom"transform this
into this
Payeras_BI
5 years agoSolution Sage
Hi robinshalabh ,
Add a Custom Column and type in the following code:
if Value.Is([Column B],type number) then null else [Column B])