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Hamidrezaei
6 years agoFrequent Visitor
White spaces
Hi Guys, Is there any way to change colums with space to null? some cells contains only one or multiple spaces inside. The function Trim seems to remove only beggining and the end of a cell wi...
- 6 years ago
Hi, Hamidrezaei
Based on your descirption, I created data to reproduce your scenario. The pbix file is attached in the end.
Test(row 4 and row 6 both have spaces):
You may add steps in Power Query as below.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlRwVHBWitWJVjJScFFwA7OMFVwV3MEsBTBpquCh4AnhAwViAQ==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}), Custom1 = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type"," ","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column1"}), Custom2 = Table.AddColumn(Custom1,"Custom2",each if Text.Length([Column1])=0 then null else [Column1]), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(Custom2,{"Column1"}) in #"Removed Columns"Result:
Best Regards
Allan
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mahoneypat
6 years agoMicrosoft Employee
In the query editor, choose Replace Values and then in the popup, type nothing (i.e., type no characters) into the first box and null into the second.
If this works for you, please mark it as the solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat