When I was in school we had a maths teacher named BVN. He used to teach advanced math (like trigonometry, calculus) for class 7 onwards. We used to fear him a lot because he is the strictest of them all. Finally when I got to seventh I met him as a teacher. And boy, he is one of the persons to change my life. He inspired me learn math like no other, he is the one who showed me how to work with computers (with those big 5¼ floppy disks and BASIC). I liked him so much that during my tenth class I even played his role during teacher’s day (It is the birthday of the second President of India, academic philosopher Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. It is considered a “celebration” day, on this day, the responsibility of teaching is taken up by the senior students as an appreciation for their teachers. more)
I met many more wonderful teachers during rest of my life, Prof. Kuldeep and Prof. Ram Kumar at IIM Indore, Prof. Seetharamaiah during my engineering days and of course my grand mother, who is probably my very first teacher in life and school. People to whom I am always thankful.
One excellent quality all these people share is, they all taught me to be passionate. They all told me to give everything for stuff I care about. They told me to question. And that is the most valuable lesson any teacher can impart on you.
I couldn’t help but remembering all those wonderful teachers in my life when I saw the Randy Pausch‘s the last lecture. He is a professor at CMU famous for his contributions to Virtual Reality and HCI. When he learned about his critical health condition due to pancreatic cancer, he chose to deliver “last lecture”, a talk to impart his life’s learnings to students and inspire them.
If you haven’t seen this lecture, please watch it. It is really inspirational.
Who are the most inspirational teachers in your life?
10 Responses to “Multiple Find Replace with Power Query List.Accumulate()”
Note: The text-formula above miss a -1. The video is correct.
😀 sorry, I made the exact same mistake as you did - initially - in the video. {0..3} is one thing, and Table.RowCount(replacements) -->3 items ={0,1,2} is another thing.
1st question : you've created a new column to put the replacements in. how ca we replace in the original column without creating a new one ?
2nd question : how can we replace the value in the entire cell and not only the text (Using ReplaceValue instead of text.Replace) ?
Thanks you in advance
Chandoo, I would be very interested to have your answers in both Yassine's questions!
Thank you for sharing,
Vassilis
Thank you for this! I was just doing an assignment where I was having to replace words with other words in my Excel sheet. We are starting with the basics in my class, so I know I don't have a huge list that I would need to find and replace, but this is something that could be useful down the road for me!
Hi
This is nearly perfect for my needs thank you, however I would like just the "replace" to be the result if possible please, I have tried in vain adjusting the formula without success.
Thank you in advance
Thank you! Awesome tip, and very flexible, too.
My find/replace values were in non-adjacent columns of a table containing a bunch of other data. Worked prefectly and I am now a tiny bit less clueless.
Hi!!!
I have the same question that Yassine did.
I need to replace the values in the same column. I don't want to create a new column e then have to remove the old column.
How could I could that?
That's a real fun article. It inspired me to delve deeper into the topic of List.Accumulate. I can see how the function works, but it takes an additional step to imagine how one can use it for more complex applications.
Your example also made it into my article, together with some other use-cases. Would be great to get your opinion on which other areas you would include in the article.
Let me drop the link to the page so others can too find it for further reading: https://gorilla.bi/power-query/list-accumulate/
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