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prashantg364
Helper II
Helper II

cutom column

I want to add a custom column in the power query editor to get output for the count of rows of the "Text" column.

Example as shown below... 

 

TextCustom column
AAACCC3
AAACCC3
AAACCC3
AAMTHN2
AAMTHN2
AATSSH1
AATSYC1
AAYSDN2
AAYSDN2
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Vijay_A_Verma
Most Valuable Professional
Most Valuable Professional

You can use this

= List.Count(List.Select(List.Buffer(Source[Text]), (x)=>x=[Text]))

Thanks, it works for me.

Hi, @Vijay_A_Verma x =[Text] is not going to work. Imho better idea is to add one extra step to buffer Source[Text] first and then (in the scope of Table.AddColumn function) this should look like this

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcnR0dHZ2VorVwc30DfHww2SGBAd7wJmRMLWRwS5+KMxYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Text = _t]),
    text_column = List.Buffer(Source[Text]),
    f = 
        Table.AddColumn(
            Source, 
            "Custom Column",
            each List.Count(List.Select(text_column, (x)=>x=[Text]))
        )
in
    f

 

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