Delete all rows from text: Item

[craig811]

Hi ,

I want to delete all rows when it finds the text 'Item' under the Column: Item.

So when I find the first record under the column:item called item I want to delete all of the rows after it.

Example:

Item

12345

36665

fgtttu

gthjk

item - I want to delete all records from the text 'Item'

hgghj

[Jimmy801 · Accepted solution]

Hello @craig811 

the simplest way to do that is to use Table.FirstN

Here a example

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQyNjFVitWJVjI2MzODsNLSS0pKSsHM9JKMrGwwK7MkNRfMyEhPz8hSio0FAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Item = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Item", type text}}),
    DeleteAfterItem = Table.FirstN
    (
        #"Changed Type",
        each Text.Lower([Item])<>"item"
    )
in
    DeleteAfterItem

before

after

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Jimmy

[lbendlin]

I am sure this can be optimized but here is one approach:

let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQyNjFVitWJVjI2MzODsNLSS0pKSsHM9JKMrGwwK7MkNRfMyEhPz8hSio0FAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Item = _t]),
#"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(Source, "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Delete", each List.Accumulate({0..[Index]},0,(state,current)=> state + (if #"Added Index"{current}[Item]="item" then 1 else 0))),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each [Delete] < 1)
in
#"Filtered Rows"

BEWARE: Power Query is case sensitive.  "Item"  and "item" are not the same thing.