Separating Delimited column with multiple delimiters

[muhamazh]

Hi everyone,

I had an unpivoted table of the form:

ID          Item           Color

1             A                   red

1             B                   red

2             C                   red

2            D                    red

2             E                    red

I wanted to combine two rows into one depending on the ID and I was able to get the following output:

1               A,B            red

2               C,D,E          red

However, I only want unique pairs like A,B and not C,D,E. The C,D,E should be separated as C,D and C,E and D,E.

Can anyone help with this conversion?

P.S: I am doing this in dax and have to remain inside dax. No use of power query for it is possible. Best

[ryan_mayu · Accepted solution]

@muhamazh 

can we create a new table in PQ to get this output? pls see the attachment below

[muhamazh]

Thanks for providing me with the solution. I have one last question.

I also have IDs that have singular values i.e not two or three different values. Like....

ID             Item                Color

1                F                     red

2               G                     red

3               H                     red

4               I                       red

5              J                       red

Is there a way to handle these values simultaneously alongside the pairs? Because the procedure takes out these singular values. Something that can create an F,F and H,H and J,J kinda combinations for singular values. 

[muhamazh]

I found the solution to this too. I just created another table with non-duplicates and appended the two tables together as they all had different and unique ids, which made the append easier. Thank you so much