Extract Nth number of a cell

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have column with values, for example:

1.5 2.5

1-5 2-5

1/4 2/4

1. - 1. 2. - 3.

1 5 2 4

etc.

And I would like to return the second and fourth number/digit of the cell's value. Would it be possible to do that in the querry editor, with a formula or with another way?

Regards,

Edgars

[v-frfei-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

I made one sample for your reference. Please check the output as the picture as below.

M code in power query for your refernce.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtQzVTDSM1WK1QGydYFsXShb30TBSN8EwtZT0FUAEkYg2lgPIqYAVKsAlI8FAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Text.Combine(List.RemoveNulls(List.Transform(Text.ToList([Column1]),each if Value.Is(Value.FromText(_), type number) then _ else null)))),
    #"Split Column by Position" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", Splitter.SplitTextByRepeatedLengths(1), {"Custom.1", "Custom.2", "Custom.3", "Custom.4"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Position",{{"Custom.1", Int64.Type}, {"Custom.2", Int64.Type}, {"Custom.3", Int64.Type}, {"Custom.4", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type1", {{"Custom.2", type text}, {"Custom.4", type text}}, "en-US"),{"Custom.2", "Custom.4"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"),
    #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Merged Columns",{{"Merged", type number}})
in
    #"Changed Type2"

For more details, please check the pbix as attached.

Regards,

Frank

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

Does that make sense? If so, kindly mark my answer as a solution to close the case.

Regards,
Frank

[Anonymous]

@v-frfei-msft Yes, thank you for your help!

Br,

Edgars

[Anonymous]

I might have found a solution myself. I found a formula in one of the previous related posts:

Text.Combine(List.RemoveNulls(List.Transform(Text.ToList([Column1]),each if Value.Is(Value.FromText(_), type number) then _ else null)))

This one extracts only numbers without any other symbols. So I used this one and them used Text.Range formula to get the second and fourth value.

But maybe there's still a shorter way how it can be done? 

[Zubair_Muhammad]

@Anonymous

This might be another way.  But its not shorter by any means

Text.Combine(
List.RemoveItems(Text.ToList([Column1]),
List.RemoveItems(Text.ToList([Column1]),{"0".."9"})))