Check if Column Contains Item from List in Power Query - Create Text.ContainsAny!

This video shows how you can create a condition to check for multiple substrings in a string. In other words to test if a value contains any of multiple items.

It is very similar to the Text.Contains function, with the main difference that the shown methods are able to deal with multiple substrings. It's like a Text.ContainAny function to check if text contains one of many strings.

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If you need to perform an exact match, check out my other video:    • Filter Column by List Items (Exact Ma...  

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:22 Recap: exact match
0:56 Method 1: Splitter.SplitTextByAnyDelimiter
4:01 The issue with Text.Contains
4:50 Method 2: Leverage Text.Contains in a function

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