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mcash
Helper I
Helper I

Text to Column Between Delimiters but maintain text without delimiters

How can I extract the text between comma delimiters while still keeping text with no delimiters? Below is an example of what I am starting with (Before) and the text I want to keep (After).

 

BeforeAfter
Service ChargeService Charge
Service ChargeService Charge
TX, Product 001, 220WProduct 001
LA, Product 001, 220WProduct 001
OK, Product 001, 220WProduct 001

 

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@mcash Including sample data that represented all of your edge cases would have saved a lot of back and forth and time wasted.

After After = 
    IF(
        NOT(CONTAINSSTRING([Before],",")),
        [Before],
                VAR __Before = SUBSTITUTE([Before],", ",",")
                VAR __First = FIND(",",__Before)
                VAR __Second = FIND(",",__Before,__First+1, -1)
                VAR __Result = 
                    IF(
                        __Second > 0,
                        MID(__Before,__First + 1, __Second - __First - 1),
                        MID(__Before,__First + 1, LEN([Before]) - __First - 1)
                    )
            RETURN
                __Result
    )

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Greg_Deckler
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@mcash Try:

After Column = 
    IF(
        NOT(CONTAINSSTRING([Before],",")),
        [Before],
                VAR __First = FIND(",",[Before])
                VAR __Second = FIND(",",[Before],__First+2)
                VAR __Result = MID([Before],__First + 2, __Second - __First - 2)
            RETURN
                __Result
    )

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@Greg_Deckler I am receiving an error.

"The search Text provided to function 'FIND' could not be found in the given text."

@mcash You must have some rows with just a single comma, try:

 

After Column = 
    IF(
        NOT(CONTAINSSTRING([Before],",")),
        [Before],
                VAR __First = FIND(",",[Before])
                VAR __Second = FIND(",",[Before],__First+2, -1)
                VAR __Result = 
                    IF(
                        __Second > 0,
                        MID([Before],__First + 2, __Second - __First - 2),
                        MID([Before],__First + 2, LEN([Before]) - __First - 1)
                    )
            RETURN
                __Result
    )

 


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This works well, but in my giant list of products there are some that do not have a space after the first comma; i.e. TX,Product 001 so it returns it as "roduct 001". Getting closer haha!

@mcash Including sample data that represented all of your edge cases would have saved a lot of back and forth and time wasted.

After After = 
    IF(
        NOT(CONTAINSSTRING([Before],",")),
        [Before],
                VAR __Before = SUBSTITUTE([Before],", ",",")
                VAR __First = FIND(",",__Before)
                VAR __Second = FIND(",",__Before,__First+1, -1)
                VAR __Result = 
                    IF(
                        __Second > 0,
                        MID(__Before,__First + 1, __Second - __First - 1),
                        MID(__Before,__First + 1, LEN([Before]) - __First - 1)
                    )
            RETURN
                __Result
    )

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External Tools: MSHGQM
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The Definitive Guide to Power Query (M)

DAX is easy, CALCULATE makes DAX hard...

This works, thank you. I understand there is a lot of back and forth, but my data set is hundreds of thousands of rows long and I cannot necessarily capture every scenario and did not know that a space or no space mattered; I'm very novice.

 

Thank you again for your help.

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