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Text.Contains

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Syntax

Text.Contains(text as nullable text, substring as text, optional comparer as nullable function) as nullable logical

About

Detects whether text contains the value substring. Returns true if the value is found. This function doesn't support wildcards or regular expressions.

The optional argument comparer can be used to specify case-insensitive or culture and locale-aware comparisons. The following built-in comparers are available in the formula language:

If the first argument is null, this function returns null.

All characters are treated literally. For example, "DR", " DR", "DR ", and " DR " aren't considered equal to each other.

Example 1

Find if the text "Hello World" contains "Hello".

Usage

Text.Contains("Hello World", "Hello")

Output

true

Example 2

Find if the text "Hello World" contains "hello".

Usage

Text.Contains("Hello World", "hello")

Output

false

Example 3

Find if the text "Hello World" contains "hello", using a case-insensitive comparer.

Usage

Text.Contains("Hello World", "hello", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

Output

true

Example 4

Find the rows in a table that contain either "A-" or "7" in the account code.

Usage

let
    Source = #table(type table [Account Code = text, Posted Date = date, Sales = number],
    {
        {"US-2004", #date(2023,1,20), 580},
        {"CA-8843", #date(2023,7,18), 280},
        {"PA-1274", #date(2022,1,12), 90},
        {"PA-4323", #date(2023,4,14), 187},
        {"US-1200", #date(2022,12,14), 350},
        {"PTY-507", #date(2023,6,4), 110}
    }),
    #"Filtered rows" = Table.SelectRows(
        Source, 
        each Text.Contains([Account Code], "A-") or
            Text.Contains([Account Code], "7"))
in
    #"Filtered rows"

Output

#table(type table [Account Code = text, Posted Date = date, Sales = number],
{
    {"CA-8843", #date(2023,7,18), 280},
    {"PA-1274", #date(2022,1,12), 90},
    {"PA-4323", #date(2023,4,14), 187},
    {"PTY-507", #date(2023,6,4), 110}
})

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