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Creating list objects

Creating list objects

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Creating list objects

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- Remember that we can think of a list object as a single column within a table or table object. The M language directly supports objects such as tables, lists, records, functions and parameters. Within the M language we classify lists, records, and tables as structured values or ordered sequences of values. We do not typically load lists as data but rather use them as intermediaries in developing other queries. We can create lists using functions that create original lists or that translate into list objects. As we can see here with the example functions on the screen. In our M language objects Power BI file, for the first method we can create lists manually using formulas between curly brackets. Let's create an example list with both character and number items. We select new source, select blank query, and we start by typing the formula. 2 5 A C Notice that the characters need to have quotation marks around them. We…

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