Matching data

[craig811]

Hi,

I am not sure if it is possbile in Power BI, however is there a way I can match the following:

Colunm A has : W345678-New 

Colunm B has : 45635 | W345678

As the value 'W345678' exists in both colunms, I want to remove the rows from my report.  All the vlaues I want to match are in the same format as above Colunm A values have -New after each value and Colunm B has a value then |.

Many thanks

[Greg_Deckler]

Column = IF(FIND(LEFT([ColumnA],FIND("-",[ColumnA])-1),[ColumnB]),1,0)

[craig811]

Thank you,

However I get the following error:'The search Text provided to function 'FIND' could not be found in the given text' any idea how to fix it?

[gooranga1]

Make sure that the first 2 column references are the same. Also does all your data in column A have a "-" before the "new"?

Try putting a default value in if you don't find the hyphen.

Column = IF(FIND(LEFT([ColumnA],FIND("-",[ColumnA],1,"999999")-1),[ColumnB]),1,0)

[craig811]

Thank you for the reply,

Yes, I do have some data in ColumnA that does not have - and some rows are blank.

[v-cherch-msft]

Hi @craig811

Could you show some data with screenshot?

Regards,

Cherie

[craig811]

Thank you,

Please see screenshot attached.

[v-cherch-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @craig811 

You may try below measure:

Column = IF(ISERROR(FIND(LEFT([ColumnA],FIND("-",[ColumnA])-1),[ColumnB])),0,1)

Regards,

Cherie

[craig811]

Great thanks Cherie,

This might be a silly question, however how do I get the formula to look for the value in columnA and if it exists in column B then enter value 1?

For example:

ColumnA              ColumnB

W111234-NEW     TEST

                              71554 |  W111234-NEW   

So from the above the value in column A exists in column B ,but might be on a different row in column B. I would still like it to show a value of 1 in the new column. 

Hope that makes sense. 

[craig811]

Thank you for solution,

However, how do I get the if statament to look in all the rows of columnB ([Line Description) to find a matching value with colunmA:

Column = IF(ISERROR(FIND(LEFT([Transaction Number],FIND("-",[Transaction Number])-1),[Line Description])),0,1)

Currently the above just looks at the one row in columnA to the same row in columnB.