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Anonymous
6 years agoNot applicable
Csv splitting issue
Hi, Im trying to split an exported csv file in power query. The split works for thousands of rows, but for some reason, few random rows do not react to the split, despite having the exact same de...
- Anonymous6 years ago
In my experience, this problem usually occurs because the csv does not have properly quoted delimiters AND one of the fields contain a carriage return or line feed. I get around this issue by opening the file without delimiters and then using the SplitColumn function in PQ. Now you should be able to find the records causing the issue and handle accordingly.
Regards,
Mike
let Source= Table.FromColumns({Lines.FromBinary(File.Contents("C:\Transform Directory\Velocity Reports\12 + Month Reports\Bulk and Count Velocity.txt"), null, null, 1252)}) SplitCol= Table.SplitColumn(Source, "Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.None), {"Column1.1", "Column1.2"}) in SplitCol
v-juanli-msft
6 years agoCommunity Support
Hi Anonymous
Could you show some sample data or screenshots?
Maybe some rows have space so the function doesn't work well.
If so, try to trim space in Edit queries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ws234FRes
https://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2015/10/08/clean-whitespace-in-powerquery/
Please check if you split the column in the right way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_JXB_KfiA
Best Regards
Maggie
Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
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