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DouweMeer
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Parenthesis as in "(" is not recognized as a string

‎06-05-2019 08:00 AM

Got something funny. I try to find a Parenthesis in a text, but it is recognized as an opening Parenthesis. Thus the following happens: 

 

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Is this simply something that is not allowed, or is it something i can report as an issue?

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parry2k
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‎06-05-2019 08:22 AM

@DouweMeer seems like you have extra parenthesis at the end. Remove one



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DouweMeer
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‎06-05-2019 08:45 AM

When I would remove that parenthesis it would still give the error. But I've been trying to reproduce the error... and it hasn't come up again. 

The only thing that happens is it claims that the parenthesis in the string value is not a string. But upon hitting enter it behaves as expected. Power BI is great most of the times, but sometimes... 

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parry2k
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‎06-05-2019 09:16 AM

@DouweMeer could be intellisense was behaving funny, I seen it few times. Good you have it up and running. 



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