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Thulasiraman
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4 years ago
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Issues in "Remove Duplicates"

Hi all, I have 4 different master files which contains duplicate values (Names). I appended all the 4 files in power query and applied trim function and removed duplicates. But still when the file...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi Thulasiraman ,

     

    Here's a function from this link.

    (text as text, optional char_to_trim as text) =>
    let
    char = if char_to_trim = null then " " else char_to_trim,
    split = Text.Split(text, char),
    removeblanks = List.Select(split, each _ <> ""),
    result=Text.Combine(removeblanks, char)
    in
    result

    Please go to the power query editor. Create a blank query, then enter the above code in the advanced editor.

     

    Then you can add a custom using this function.

    Now you can remove the column with the wrong spaces, keeping your new column.

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Stephen Tao

     

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