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CWPRenewables
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CSV Carriage Returns Splitting Data to New Rows in Power Query

I am trying to transfer an old Excel query into Power BI, but have encountered an issue with carriage returns in my CSV source data. It seems that when a csv dataset has carriage returns within cell...
  • JasonC_XBI's avatar
    5 years ago

    The issue is to do with the QuoteStyle being used in the query.

    For more info, see the Official Documentation:

    "QuoteStyle: Specifies how quoted line breaks are handled. QuoteStyle.None (default): All line breaks are treated as the end of the current row, even when they occur inside a quoted value. QuoteStyle.Csv: Quoted line breaks are treated as part of the data, not as the end of the current row."

     

    To resolve it, edit your query as follows :

    Csv.Document(file, [Delimiter=",", Encoding=1252, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.Csv])

     

    That is, make sure to have ".Csv" following QuoteStyle, instead of ".None"