Text.start with if statment

[Justas4478]

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 to do but I am not familiar with M code.

[Justas4478]

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.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

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]

Thank you it works.