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shuhn1229
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Helper III

Extracting From A Field with Multiple Delimiters

Hi all,

 

I am relatively new to power query and am trying to extract all the text between [] delimiters in a field, if they exist. See example below:

 

InputOutput
[Apples] - 46 [Oranges] -1Apples, Oranges
[Oranges] -1Oranges
I need some fruit 

 

The problem I am running into is the delimeters between text in the ribbon is only returning one delimeter. I looked into this with this awesome thread, but I can't wrap my head around using "[" and "]" to begin and close the delimiters, respectively.

 

@ronrsnfld 

@AntrikshSharma 

Thanks

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jbwtp
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Hi @shuhn1229,

 

This may help:

Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Calculated", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(List.Select(Text.Split([Input], "["), each Text.Contains(_, "]")), each Text.BeforeDelimiter(_, "]")), ", "))

 

Cheers,

John

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jbwtp
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Memorable Member

Hi @shuhn1229,

 

This may help:

Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Calculated", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(List.Select(Text.Split([Input], "["), each Text.Contains(_, "]")), each Text.BeforeDelimiter(_, "]")), ", "))

 

Cheers,

John

Thanks John!!!!  Yours was the best answer of all!!!!!

Excellent!!!!!

looks like it's working great! you the man (or woman!)

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