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DataSundowner
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Convert a Pattern of Bad Data to Null

‎09-19-2022 08:19 AM

Hi everyone. I have a column contains a bunch of bad entries such as "000000", "1111", "00000000000", "2222222" etc. Basically, it's a string with repetitive digits, and length of the string is not specific. How can I efficiently convert this kind of pattern to nulls in Power Query? Thank you! 

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DataSundowner
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‎09-19-2022 11:56 AM

@amitchandak Thank you for your reply. I found out the following post and it met my needs. 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57775536/power-query-how-to-delete-duplicate-characters-from-a-s...

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amitchandak
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‎09-19-2022 09:20 AM

@DataSundowner , does correct values have some pattern?


Can you share sample data and sample output in table format?

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