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
I am surprised why this doesn't have enough votes yet!
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Having RegEx capability is essential for being able to extract/manipulate text efficiently. And available in public libraries so not a huge ask but massive capability increase for text handling
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Please make full RegEx support in Power Query. The current way of using it through (Web.Page function) performs very slow and does not support full regex functionality.
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Only 900+ upvotes in 8 years? Let's all take a moment to consider how many potential users took note of the lack of regexp and dropped the tool as a truly scalable option for SMBs.
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
8 years and counting!!
RE: Regular Expressions support in Power Query
Actually, I think the upvote just took, but the latency was very high.
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.
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.