# Filter rows by "is blank" not working

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095>\
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**Tags:** Building-Flows\
**Created:** [December 5, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095 "2024-12-05T15:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rebecca\_Morgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Rebecca\_Morgan](https://community.parabola.io/u/Rebecca_Morgan)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095/1 "2024-12-05T15:31:42Z")

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Simply that. I’m not sure if there’s some hidden data in these rows that I’m not seeing that’s causing them to register as not blank. Any hints?

 ![Screenshot 2024-12-05 at 10.30.53 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/2X/3/34435caaca280e3472c170af4fa2a9c021f6b357.png)

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**Author:** ![Ethan\_Mirman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/839c29/32.png) [@Ethan\_Mirman](https://community.parabola.io/u/Ethan_Mirman)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095/2 "2024-12-06T18:42:11Z")

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Hi Rebecca! Could you send a link to the flow to [help@parabola.io](mailto:help@parabola.io) so we can go in and take a look?

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**Author:** ![Rebecca\_Morgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Rebecca\_Morgan](https://community.parabola.io/u/Rebecca_Morgan)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095/3 "2024-12-12T15:35:01Z")

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Sure, take a look: [**flow**](https://parabola.io/app/flow/vjJrkD89DK/builder)

I ended up just telling the filter to remove the rows that started with a left bracket, which effectively did what I needed. I’ll add a comment to point out the step in question.

Edit: emailed this content as well

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**Author:** ![Parabola\_Support2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Parabola\_Support2](https://community.parabola.io/u/Parabola_Support2)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095/4 "2024-12-12T16:35:15Z")

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Rebecca,

I’m glad that it’s working! For future reference, using a “clean data” step to remove leading and trailing spaces may have also worked – I’m guessing that there was a space or some other character that made the cell not register as “blank”.

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**Author:** ![Rebecca\_Morgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Rebecca\_Morgan](https://community.parabola.io/u/Rebecca_Morgan)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095/5 "2024-12-12T16:57:45Z")

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Ah, perfect. I just tried that as an alternative and it totally works. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Ethan\_Mirman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/839c29/32.png) [@Ethan\_Mirman](https://community.parabola.io/u/Ethan_Mirman)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/filter-rows-by-is-blank-not-working/3095/6 "2024-12-12T21:09:35Z")

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Of course – glad to hear it!