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bartvana
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Jun 05, 2021
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Power Query: Filter table based on list with wildcards

I have this list in an Excel sheet: FOL/ CREDIT ...   I need my Power Query to filter a given table so that everything beginning with "FOL/" and "CREDIT" in the column "Name" (eg. FOL/1254, FOL/...
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    SergeiBaklan
    Jun 05, 2021

    bartvana 

    As variant, if you would like to filter first table on the texts in the second table from which first table text start

    the query could be like

    let
        Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(
            Source,
            "Custom",
            each
                [a=[A],
                    b=List.Contains(
                        List.Transform(
                            Table2[B],
                            each Text.StartsWith(a, _)
                        ),
                    true
                    )
                ][b]
        ),
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(
            #"Added Custom", each ([Custom] = true)
        ),
        #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(
            #"Filtered Rows",
            {"A"}
        )
    in
        #"Removed Other Columns"

    List.Transform checks if for any element of second table column A starts from it. With List.Contains we check if there are at least one TRUE. Finally filter on this column and remove it.

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