Extracting number from a text field with description then making colum

[Anonymous]

So I have a feild named descrpition that described spillage incidents....... Each colum in this fieild will have a volume (in liters) of the amount product spilled. I want to create a colum that will seach through each field and find whatever number is befor the word/letters "litre" and have that number in a colum..... The sentance below is of how the description field typically looks looks. "An incident occured whre a truck rolled over and spilled over 1264 litres of fuel ect.." or "A woker tripped and feel on a container resulting in 123litres of fuel being spilled" some times theres a space after the digits sometimes not... Can anyone assist me with this

[goncalogeraldes]

Hi @Anonymous , assuming that the only numbers present in the string are those you mentioned, you can do the following:

Go to "Add Column" -> "Custom Column" -> Paste a code similar to (replace with your column name)

Text.Select( [Sentence], {"0".."9"} )

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[Anonymous]

The issue I only want digits that are before the words(text) "litres".... Since the sentance containce other didgits, can you assist me with that..

[goncalogeraldes · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous in that case, since I would need some examples of data to test it out, my suggestion to you would be to do the following:
Select your column -> Add Column -> Column from examples (be sure to select the "From selection" option in the drop down menu)

Fill in some examples (until you see that Power Query starts suggesting values correctly) and name your new column. 

Another possibility is to manually add a step in the query with following code:

= Table.AddColumn(PreviousStepName, "Extracted Numbers", each Text.BetweenDelimiters([Column_with_text_string], "", "liters"), type number)

Hope this answer solves your problem!
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