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Splitting Rows by Backspace
Hello! I'm creating a query from PDF and run into a problem. query read separate rows as one, i need to separate them: By copy pasting values in excel and using =unichar() I found t...
Are you sure your character is a backspace? That won't produce a new line. This is how you can split a cell to new rows by a carriage return/line feed (character 13):
Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns(Source, {{"Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("#(cr)#(lf)", QuoteStyle.Csv), let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "Column1")Interesting - what about this?
= Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns(#"Changed Type2", {{"Details.1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("#(lf)", QuoteStyle.Csv), let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "Details.1")
Are you sure your character is a backspace? That won't produce a new line. This is how you can split a cell to new rows by a carriage return/line feed (character 13):
Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns(Source, {{"Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("#(cr)#(lf)", QuoteStyle.Csv), let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "Column1")
Thank you! it worked!!!