I am building a workbook in PowerBI and I have the need for doing a conditional appending of text to column A if it meets a certain criteria. Specifically, if column A does not end with ".html" then I want to append the text ".html" to the column.
A sample of the data would look like this:
URL | Visits
site.com/page1.html | 5
site.com/page2.html | 12
site.com/page3 | 15
site.com/page4.html | 8
where the desired output would look like this:
URL | Visits
site.com/page1.html | 5
site.com/page2.html | 12
site.com/page3.html | 15
site.com/page4.html | 8
I have tried using the code:
#"CurrentLine" = Table.TransformColumns(#"PreviousLine", {{"URL", each if Text.EndsWith([URL],".html") = false then _ & ".html" else "URL", type text}})
But that returns an error "cannot apply field access to the type Text".
I can achieve the desired output in a very roundabout way if I use an AddColumn to store the criteria value, and then another AddColumn to store the new appended value, but this seems like an extremely overkill way to approach doing a single transformation to a column. (I am specifically looking to avoid this as I have about 10 or so transformations and don't want to have so many columns to add and cleanup if there is a more succinct way of coding)
You don't want [URL] inside Text.EndWith. Try this:
= Table.TransformColumns(#"PreviousLine",
{{"URL", each if Text.EndsWith(_, ".html") then _ else _ & ".html", type text}}
)