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Hello,

I have Table1 containing a column called [Business Lines]. I have Table2 containing [Text String] and [Operating Area].

I'm trying to perform a type of Merge Query, where it will search Table1[Business Lines] for the first match of Table2[Text String] and return Table2[Operating Area].

 

I tried fuzzy Merge Query and it didn't function at all like I had hoped. I also came across some code online at this page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62327202/power-query-function-to-search-for-matching-keywords-in-a-table-of-lists-and-ret

which was very close, but also came back with Operating Areas that simply did not match. 

 

Any help is, of course, greatly appreciated.

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Hi Adam,

Can you please supply some sample data in an Excel file.

Thanks

Phil

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Hi Philip, sorry I didn't do that. I may have discovered the solution. The code used "Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase" I believe.

I removed the ignore case, and it's picked up the words perfectly. Thanks again for being available, as usual.

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OK no worries.  Glad to hear you got it figured out

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