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Alan Sidman
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I am attempting to remove all consonants from a column of Text only data.

 

ie.  Alan will result in Aa

Maxwell will result in ae

Combine will result in oie

 

I have attempted using Text.Select([FieldName],{"A","E", "I", "O", "U","a","e","i","o","u"}) with out success.  PQ generates an error and indicates the error at the first comma.

 

Any thoughts on a workaround

 

Alan

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Try this one:
let
Custom2 = List.Select(Text.ToList("Combine"),each List.Contains({"A","E", "I", "O", "U","a","e","i","o","u"},_))
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Thought we might be onto something there.  However, that returns a List and when expanded shows only the letters oie for each record.  The data being tested is seven rows of data, each row the name of the day of the week, ie.  Sunday, Monday, etc.

 

Really didn't think that this would be so difficult.

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It's not that difficult, I gave you the formula, was hoping you can adapt it to your scenario.

Returns the oie list because I used Text.ToList("Combine"), where the part in red is the analized text. Combining a list back into text is very easy: Text.Combine.

Full example attached.

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My apologies.  I missed changing your lookup word to my field name when I copied and pasted for testing.  Thank you for your help and pointing out my carelessness.  Much appreciated.  Your scenario works perfectly when applied properly.

 

Alan

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