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Sagejah9
Helper III
Helper III

Extract the number before the string days

Hi, I am trying to extract the number before days from the string 2 days or 1.5 days. How can I do so using DAX ?

 

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mahoneypat
Employee
Employee

Much easier to do that within the query editor with Text.BeforeDelimiter([YourColumn], " Days").  But here is an expression to do it with a DAX column.  Replace Days[Days] with your actual Table[Column]

 

JustNumber = Left(Days[Days], SEARCH(" d", Days[Days],1,0))
 
 

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CNENFRNL
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Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

mahoneypat
Employee
Employee

Much easier to do that within the query editor with Text.BeforeDelimiter([YourColumn], " Days").  But here is an expression to do it with a DAX column.  Replace Days[Days] with your actual Table[Column]

 

JustNumber = Left(Days[Days], SEARCH(" d", Days[Days],1,0))
 
 

Pat





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