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Need Solutions for Trailing Space Trimming Issue in Power Query
I just ran into the same issue. FWIW my data is geospatial shapes in WKT format. Due to their length, they have to be split into multiple rows (in PQ) and then reassembled by a Measure using CONCATENATEX. But trailing spaces in any cell get trimmed when the query is loaded, which can result in invalid WKT from that Measure.
My hackaround is to replace the spaces with a pipe "|" character in the query, then wrap my CONCATENATEX in a SUBST function to replace "|" with " " (space). This is viable in my case as "|" is never used in WKT syntax. This preserves trailing spaces.
This is a bug IMO, Power BI should accurately store the data loaded. If we want to trim, we can do that in PQ. If they want to keep trimming as the default behaviour, they should add a switch to turn that off (keep trailing spaces).
I made a quick repro PBIX for this bug:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmLFDsG7h6JPiJFy4l080eHn3D5Zqg?e=YQ4e91