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Dicken
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Continued Contributor

exact text string patter test

hi, i've been experimentin with regex patterns and wondered about replicating in power query, 
so this does seem to work, but can anyone suggest simpler / better way, so here i want to test for a pattern of 
any 2 characters,  then "abc"  then any two characters end.  
so regex ; 
=REGEXTEST("xxabcxx","^.{2}abc.{2}$",1)

in power qeuery i have;

let
  Source = #table(type table [sometext], {{"xxabcxx"}}),
  #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(
    Source,
    "Custom",
    each
      let
        f = Text.Start([sometext], 2),
        e = Text.End([sometext], 2),
        m = Text.Middle([sometext], 2, 3)
      in
        f & m & e = [sometext]
  )
in
  #"Added Custom"

Richard. 

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lbendlin
Super User
Super User

You would want to check that you string has exactly 7 characters. Then you would only need to test for Text.Middle.

 

Word of advice: Power Query is case sensitive.

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lbendlin
Super User
Super User

You would want to check that you string has exactly 7 characters. Then you would only need to test for Text.Middle.

 

Word of advice: Power Query is case sensitive.

Dicken
Continued Contributor
Continued Contributor

yes i realised my mistake after postng.

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