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Ennygreat
2 years agoNew Member
Please I need help
I'm trying to work on a column using power query and I encountered an inconsistent data entry. The region doesn't align and was repeated with different space method. Kindly see ...
- 2 years ago
Hi,
To remove leading and trailing spaces from your data, use the Trim function. First, go to the Transform Data page, select the Region column, right-click, choose Transform, and select Trim.
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- 2 years ago
Hi Ennygreat, if you also have spaces between words - you can do this:
Result
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WUlBwLC0uKUrMyUxUitWJVgrNyyxJTVHwzsxLT8nPBQspKPilliuAQFRqYk5iXgpUVCE4tSgJpC0WAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), Ad_RemovedSpaces = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Removed Spaces", each Text.Combine(List.RemoveMatchingItems(Text.Split([Column1], " "), {""}), " "), type text) in Ad_RemovedSpaces
Ennygreat
2 years agoNew Member
Someone should please attend to this if you know how to solve it. Thank you