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Justas4478
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2 years ago
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Text.start with if statment

Hello, I have this M code for power query. Text.Start([Day of Week Name],3) I an trying to add if statment that if text says Thursday then do 5 caracters instead of 3. I think it is simple thing t...
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Justas4478
Post Prodigy
2 years ago

I manage to get it to work with this:
if [Day of Week Name] = "Thursday" then Text.Start([Day of Week Name],5) else Text.Start([Day of Week Name],3)
But I think there is better and shorter way to write this code.
If anyone has better solution please let me know.

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Anonymous
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2 years ago

Hi Justas4478 ,

Please try:

Text.Start([Day of Week Name], if [Day of Week Name] = "Thursday" then 5 else 3)

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    Justas4478
    Post Prodigy
    2 years ago

    Thank you it works.