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Anonymous
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Within M Language change "Last, First" Name to "First Last"?

Hi all,

 

Thank you to everyone for this continued support on this community.  It has been incredibly helpful with getting through this project.  So continuing that path...

 

I have code that looks as follows:

 

DetailColumns = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(RecordsOfPage, "PageData", {"FullName", "Field1","Field2","Field3"}​ 

 

[FullName] returns Last, First name (i.e. "Smith, Joe").  I need to transform this to "Joe Smith".

 

I suspect it has something to do with the function: Text.BeforeDelimiter([FullName], ",", 0), type text) and Text.AfterDelimiter([FullName], ",", 0), type text) <--NOTE: SYNTAX MAY/MAY NOT BE CORRECT

 

However, I'm not familiar enough with the M language to how exactly embed this within the ExpandRecordColumn line of code.  I tried to do it afterwards by pulling [FullName] twice, but I can't pull the same field twice.  Advice going either direction would be much appreciated.

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camargos88
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Try this code on add a new column for Power Query:

 

Text.Combine(List.Reverse(Text.Split([Column1],",")), " ")

 

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HotChilli
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Start a new thread and please provide a data sample in text format

camargos88
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Try this code on add a new column for Power Query:

 

Text.Combine(List.Reverse(Text.Split([Column1],",")), " ")

 

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Anonymous
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Hello! I know this is old but this is what I'm looking for. However I keep getting errors because some of my values are null. How could you edit this query to account for nulls?

Anonymous
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@camargos88  Brilliant!!!  Thank you!

 

And thank you to everyone here for suggestions and feedback.

HotChilli
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Try using 'Add Column from examples' to see what powerbi comes up with.  Give it some good examples .

Anonymous
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sweet. thank you! it gave me this: let splitConsultant = Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(", ", QuoteStyle.None)([Consultant]) in Text.Combine({splitConsultant{1}?, " ", splitConsultant{0}?}) 

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