PQ Split by Second Delimiter

cr731

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I have a column containing delimited values and I need to split them by the second instance of the delimiter, ignoring any other instances of the delimiter. The delimiter is "-" (hyphen) For example,

One-Two-Three-Four
One-Two-ThreeFour

Needs to be split into
One-Two
Three-Four
One-Two
ThreeFour

<tbody>
</tbody>

Is there a good way to do this?

Thanks
 
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Recently, 3 new functions were added to Power Query to extract texts before/after/between delimiters.
If you have the correct version, this will work:

Code:
let
    Source = Table1,
    Part2 = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Part2", each Text.AfterDelimiter([Column1],"-",1)),
    Part1 = Table.TransformColumns(Part2, {{"Column1", each Text.BeforeDelimiter(_, "-",1)}})
    
in
    Part1

Each last argument "1" means the 2nd delimiter (0-based).
 
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