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I have an excel sheet as below and i want to import only chines names and blanks into power bi and delete remaining rows.
Excel Sheet data:
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| ID | Name |
| 1 | shiv |
| 2 | kumar |
| 3 | 24567 |
| 4 | 谢谢 |
| 5 | 你好 |
| 6 | 明天见 |
| 7 |
Data in Power BI should look like:
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| ID | Name |
| 4 | 谢谢 |
| 5 | 你好 |
| 6 | 明天见 |
| 7 |
in the given example above i have shown few records but i have millions of rows to do this.
Solved! Go to Solution.
@Anonymous
Sorry I had missed the null
File attached as well
try this
= Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each List.ContainsAny({"",null}, {Text.Select([Name],List.Transform({1..126}, each Character.FromNumber(_)))}))
Hi @Anonymous
Try adding this step in Query Editor
It works with your sample data
= Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each Text.Select([Name],List.Transform({1..126}, each Character.FromNumber(_)))="")
See the attached file
@Anonymous
Sorry I had missed the null
File attached as well
try this
= Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each List.ContainsAny({"",null}, {Text.Select([Name],List.Transform({1..126}, each Character.FromNumber(_)))}))
Thank you so much @Zubair_Muhammad it worked.
However, i didnt get this trasform List.Transform({1..126) that how it works?. if possible, pls explain.
Thank you again for swift response and help 🙂
@AnonymousThis function results in a list of majority of characters that we can type from the keyboard
List.Transform({1..126}, each Character.FromNumber(_))
Create a blank query and cope paste above code you will get
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