The DAX ENDSWITHX Function Equivalent

I remembered the excellent articles written by Rob Collie at powerpivotpro.com on the CONTAINSX function equivalent:

http://www.powerpivotpro.com/2014/01/containsx-finding-if-a-value-in-table-1-has-a-matching-value-in-table-2/

and

http://www.powerpivotpro.com/2014/01/containsx-revisited-what-was-the-match/

I decided that it was time to extend this solution to search at the end of a string. In particular, I started to look at my bank statements and I had a need to filter all payments that were a fixed monthly payment. So, Rob’s formula shown below worked great for this:

= SUMX (MList,FIND (MList[MonthlyPay],Payments[Type],, 0 ) )> 0

where MList is a linked list [MonthlyPay] of the search strings those fixed payments, and Payments[Type] is a column in the table for my bank statement. I was able to use this Boolean result to filter my pivot table to afford the desired result.

The payment descriptions are space delimited, and I also wanted to return all searches that look at only the last string in the space delimited string. The following formula accomplishes this.

 = SUMX( MList, FIND( MList[MonthlyPay], MID( [Type], FIND( “~”, IFERROR( SUBSTITUTE( Payments[Type], “”, “~”, LEN(Payments[Type]) -LEN(SUBSTITUTE(Payments[Type],””,””)) ), “~” ), , 1 ), 255 ), , 0 ) ) >0

The internal SUBSTITUTE function creates a string with only the last space in the original string replaced with a “~”, the position which can then be located by the FIND function.

In cases where it may be necessary to search the end of a string that uses another delimiter, it may be desirable to automatically change the delimiter in this formula. By using a one cell linked table, the value in Delimiter[delim] can be changed in the table and then updated in the DataModel. The result is shown in the formula below.

= SUMX( MList, FIND( MList[MonthlyPay], MID( [Type], FIND( “~”, IFERROR( SUBSTITUTE( Payments[Type], VALUES(Delimiter[delim]), “~”, LEN(Payments[Type]) -LEN( SUBSTITUTE( Payments[Type], VALUES(Delimiter[delim]), “” ) ) ), “~” ), , 1 ), 255 ), , 0 ) ) >0

Although I cannot claim to know every DAX formula ever made, I am fairly certain that this represents the 1^st example of parameterizing a text character in a DAX formula.

BTW, I apologize for the brevity of this article and the lack of any pictures showing visually what I am describing.

It is possible that I drifted off of the subject of an actual ENDSWITHX function equivalent, so to correct that, I offer the following formula.

= SUMX( MList, FIND( MList[MonthlyPay], RIGHT([Type],MAX(MList[LenVal])), , 0 ) ) >0

where a column in the MList table [LenVal] uses the formula  =LEN([MonthlyPay]) to calculate the number of text characters for each search string. The maximum value is used with the RIGHT to return a searchable string from the end of the [TYPE] string. If the [type] string has is smaller  than the max len value of the search string, it returns the shorter string without producing an error.

HTH!