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Ability to use wildcards in power query transformation find section of replace values.

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bhobgood on 17 Mar 2015 08:12:03

In the transformation area of replace values it would be nice to be able to use a wildcard in the value to replace field. For example we have transaction descriptions like... Placement [EB-12375596] and it would be great to be able to enter something like... Placement% to capture all of these. I've got several work-arounds but this would be a great feature for those who don't know SQL.

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John Thomas on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:16

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Ditto! Would be nice to have. I now have to add several steps to cover several different "literal" scenarios, whereas a wildcard would reduce it down to one step. In addition it would be nice if you could search for values only or text only, or a combination. Something like ".0#" would look for a values ".00", ".01", ".02"... ".09" but NOT ".0a" or any other non-digit string, and replace it with the value provided. (We would need a char for "any values".) Or if you wanted to replace text strings use "?" for single char, and * for any characters.

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Steve on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:43

RE: Ability to use wildcards in power query transformation find section of replace values.

this is really needed!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:31

RE: Ability to use wildcards in power query transformation find section of replace values.

Must have feature!!

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Frank Dunn on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:52

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Would prefer Regex

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Lucio on 05 Jul 2020 22:27:04

RE: Ability to use wildcards in power query transformation find section of replace values.

Must have feature!!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:21:08

RE: Ability to use wildcards in power query transformation find section of replace values.

Must have feature!!