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Anonymous
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Special character that is not White in Column

Dear, I have a problem and it is shown in the image:

My RUT column has the function of being my primary key and has characters that, Power BI does not make me treat it as a white or null to be able to delete. I've tried to replace, clean, trim, try also with LEN and Unicode as to know what type of character it possesses but I didn't succeed.

Please help, as I do not know how to delete all records that meet this condition. Thank you.

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Greg_Deckler
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@fgnavarrete - When you say LEN and UNICODE below are using the DAX UNICODE and LEN functions? What does Power Query show when filtering? It is strange that it is zero-length, not blank, and the UNICODE value does not exist. Have you tried:

New Table = FILTER('Table',[RUT]<>"")

O

New Table = FILTER('Table',ISBLANK([RUT]) || LEN([RUT])>0)



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Greg_Deckler
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@fgnavarrete - When you say LEN and UNICODE below are using the DAX UNICODE and LEN functions? What does Power Query show when filtering? It is strange that it is zero-length, not blank, and the UNICODE value does not exist. Have you tried:

New Table = FILTER('Table',[RUT]<>"")

O

New Table = FILTER('Table',ISBLANK([RUT]) || LEN([RUT])>0)



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Anonymous
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@Greg_Deckler I did the filter and it worked, I effectively remove the special characters and now the column has all its correct values, there are no longer special characters.

I turned around solving the subject and it didn't occur to me to make a filter that excludes the values from dysint to ""

Thanks a lot.

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@Anonymous - Awesome, glad you got that solved. Weird one though!



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