How to ignore a column when counting in Power Query

[tgjones43]

Hi all

I have a table of >1000 rows, with each row looking like this:

Index

Spot 1

Spot 2

Spot 3

Spot 4

Spot 5

Spot 6

Spot 7

Spot 8

Spot 9

Spot 10

Spot 11

TICK

NO TICK

1

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

TICK

11

0

2

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

NO TICK

0

11

Where the last 2 columns add the number of TICK and NO TICK values for each row using this code (for NO TICK):

= Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Value #2.1", "NO TICK", each List.Count(
List.Select(
Text.Split(
Text.Combine(
List.Transform(Record.ToList(_),each Text.From(_))
,",")
,
","
),each _ ="NO TICK")
))

but what I'd like to do is ignore whatever is in the column Spot 11, so in the example above the figures would be 10 not 11 in the last 2 columns.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Thank you!

[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@tgjones43 , You can use List.RemoveLastN and remove last element of the list

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/list-removelastn

[tgjones43]

Thanks @amitchandak do you know how to fit that command into the code that I pasted? I can't work this out.

[tgjones43]

I figured it out, pasting the code below in case it is useful to anyone else:

= Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Value #2.1", "NO TICK", each List.Count(
List.Select(
Text.Split(
Text.Combine(
List.Transform(List.RemoveLastN(Record.ToList(_),1),each Text.From(_))
,",")
,
","
),each _ ="NO TICK")
))