Marco on 16 Jul 2015 14:17:27
We think regexp support will help the adoption of the Power Query tool in the most demanding use cases. Many thanks.
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RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Good grief, this idea was originally posted SEVEN years ago! And still it's not taken up by the PowerBI team?
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
It gets even worse when ETL runs in PBI data flows. Here you can't use the Python or R workarounds because they are not supported in the PBI service.Please add Regex to dataflows as well!
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Assuming MS have written PowerQuery in .NET, it would be easy passthru tech to enable regex ... such a quick win, it's surprising it hasn't already been added really.
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
You can use the python plugin to do REGEX but it is tedious. I would much prefer to have it available natively in Power Query.
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Definitely need this basic function for any data manupulation. Can't believe it's not included.
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Regex support is one of functionality I miss most in PowerQuery. Doing multiple "substitute values" is awkward
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Please provide this
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Just wasted two days on filtering issues that would have been solved in 5 minutes with regular expressions. This is not only badly needed, it should be a basic feature of Power Query !!
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
I've created Custom M Code function to let Power Query in Excel & Power BI able to use RegEx.
pls feel free to try my code. https://www.thepexcel.com/power-query-regex/
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
It's 2021 and Microsoft ♥ Linux. Time for some Regular Expression ♥ for Power Query. Can't be that hard to add from the .Net libraries.