pull out multiple data from delimited columns

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Cartesian

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Hi all,

I'm back at it again and seeking help.
I have created a power query in excel that combines and edits multiple csv files in a folder.
The result is a table that looks like this, but has thousands of columns of data:

mrexcel.png

a131451gF05-5974

a131451gF05-5974


I would like to pull out the coordinates from the rows and dump them into columns on a different sheet in the workbook (potentially 2000 coordinate pairs).

For example, column A will pull out each "x:" coordinate , column B will pull out the corresponding "y:" coordinate from my query row 3.
Then column C will pull x: from query row 5, column D y: from query row 5
Then column E will pull x: from query row 7, column F y: from query row 7
and so on and so forth to produce something like this:

mrexcel2.png


Note: there are other random text values throughout the row, so will need to look for the x: and y: to retrieve the values.
Also note, the coordinates dont always have the same number of decimal places.


I will also need to pull out other information from rows 2, 4, 6, 8 etc.
so will retrieve "info1" without the id:, or 1.5 without the line:'' etc

Thanks so much!
 

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