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Regular Expressions support in Power Query

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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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Ash R. on 13 Apr 2023 19:18:17

RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query

8 years and counting!!

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Shawn Eary on 10 Feb 2023 17:27:30

RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query

Actually, I think the upvote just took, but the latency was very high.

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Shawn Eary on 10 Feb 2023 17:16:51

RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query

Why doesn't the vote counter seem to increment when I click the upvote button?If there is some kind of latency or delay, that delay is huge.

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Kevin Gunther-Canada on 29 Jun 2022 21:02:37

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?

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Michael Marx on 08 Jun 2022 09:56:38

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!

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Andrew H on 17 May 2022 06:34:51

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.

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Shaun Titus on 28 Feb 2022 14:41:04

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.

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Hongmei JIA on 28 Jan 2022 16:37:26

RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query

Definitely need this basic function for any data manupulation. Can't believe it's not included.

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Mauro Canarecci on 01 Nov 2021 21:54:30

RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query

Regex support is one of functionality I miss most in PowerQuery. Doing multiple "substitute values" is awkward

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Christian Winheller on 13 Sep 2021 14:10:01

RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query

Please provide this

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