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Regular Expressions in Power BI TMDL View Find and Replace

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For this weeks blog, a quick tip about a feature in Power BI desktop which had flow entirely over my head: You can use RegEx for Find & Replace operations in Power BI Desktop TMDL View!

Yes! You heard that right!

I had no idea, until I caught it in a live demo by Power BI partner director Mohammad Ali at his Power BI Next Step keynote.

Read on to see what you can do with this. The same is possible in other tools like Visual Studio Code and even SQL Server Management Studio, though what specific regular expression capabilities are available and the exact syntax for them will differ based on the product.

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