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Anonymous
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Import only Non English contained rows and blanks and delete remaining

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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IDName
1shiv
2kumar
3 24567
4谢谢
5你好
6明天见
7 

 

Data in Power BI should look like:

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IDName
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.

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@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(_)))}))

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Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

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(_)))}))
Anonymous
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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

 

china.png

 

 

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