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Zdenek_Moravec
Feb 09, 2021Brass Contributor
Power Query - Split folder path with different structure into same columns
 Dear colleagues,  I want to create a list of folders and files and split the folder names into columns. Unfortunatelly the structure of all subfolders is not the same.  Example:  C:\EUROPE\GERMANY\20...
- Feb 09, 2021
Slightly different variant (without transition from letter to number), but with same assumption we have only 4 parts and only second one (country) could be missed.
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content], #"Exclude Drive" = Table.AddColumn( Source, "path", each Text.AfterDelimiter([FileName], ":\"), type text ), #"Get Region" = Table.SplitColumn( #"Exclude Drive", "path", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({"\"}, QuoteStyle.Csv, false), {"Region", "Txt"} ), #"Get File" = Table.SplitColumn( #"Get Region", "Txt", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({"\"}, QuoteStyle.Csv, true), {"Txt", "File"} ), #"Get Country" = Table.AddColumn( #"Get File", "Country", each Text.BeforeDelimiter([Txt], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text ), #"Get Year" = Table.AddColumn( #"Get Country", "Year", each Text.AfterDelimiter([Txt], "\", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text ), #"Keep Final" = Table.SelectColumns( #"Get Year", {"Region", "Country", "Year", "File"} ) in #"Keep Final" 
SergeiBaklan
Feb 10, 2021Diamond Contributor
That's all in user interface, you may call them both in Transform and Add Column under Extract.
Zdenek_Moravec
Feb 10, 2021Brass Contributor
- SergeiBaklanFeb 11, 2021Diamond Contributor
Zdenek_Moravec , glad to help