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Anonymous
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If column of type text contains a specific value

Hi Everyone,

 

I am trying to figure out the following problem: I have a column A of type text with both words and numbers. I would like to create a new column B where I only return from column A the text which includes the numbers 0,1,2.....9. 

Can anyone help me out?

 

Thanks in advance.

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Ok then you can try this.

 

1.

 

 

Text.Select([Column1], {"0".."9"})

 

 

2.

 

 

Text.Select([Column1], {"A".."Z"})

 

 

3.

Filter the Row with the letters (null) Then you should get what you want

 

 

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 ->

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Anonymous
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This is quite helpful, thank you. However, in my example column, I have rows either with text and numbers or rows with only numbers and I would like to extract only the rows which contain numbers and ignore the ones where there's a mix between text and numbers (there can appear a blank space). I would be very grateful if you could help me. Best regards

 

Hey nore755, you can try something like this

 

if (Value.Is([Column1], Int64.Type)) then [Column1] else ""

  This give me just the Numbers.

 

PeterSch_0-1626679951079.png

 

I hope that work for you.

 

Anonymous
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I tried this but I have noticed this solution does not work for me, because my column type is text, which I cannot convert. I was try something like this, but I am getting errors:


If text.contains (columnA,"0")  then columnA

else if text.contains (columnA,"1")  then columnA

else if text.contains (columnA,"2")  then columnA

...

else ""

 

It would be of great help!

Ok then you can try this.

 

1.

 

 

Text.Select([Column1], {"0".."9"})

 

 

2.

 

 

Text.Select([Column1], {"A".."Z"})

 

 

3.

Filter the Row with the letters (null) Then you should get what you want

 

 

PeterSch_0-1626694831170.png

 ->

PeterSch_1-1626694853606.png

 

 

 

Anonymous
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Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated!!

PeterSch
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Maybe this will help you.

 

There it is solved in Power Query.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/NEED-HELP-FOR-EXTRACT-ONLY-NUMBERS/td-p/270983

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