Advent of Code 2022 Day 3 (BaseA Style)

[AlteryxCommunityTeam]

Discussion thread for day 3 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/3

[mmontgomery]

Was aiming for speed over cleanliness. A bit sloppy

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[DawnDuong]

My D3 solution. There is more elegant way to generate the a-zA-Z inputs than what I did here :-)

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[AkimasaKajitani]

My soltuion. 

I was almost lost in Part 2 by 3 elves.

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https://github.com/AkimasaKajitani/AdventOfCode/tree/main/2022

[NicoleJ]

Only the third day of AoC, and already I've gotten to use my favorite dark horse... ❤️ MAKE COLUMNS!! ❤️
Finding reasons to use this secretly awesome tool brings me enormous joy.

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[clmc9601]

Thankful for tokenize functionality! I keep hoping there's a better way to compare similarities between strings.

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[Jeff_Neklason]

How many others did this one while watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? (because I totally have a life)

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[Jotigautam]

Good going so far 😃 Day 3 done along with generating Alphabets in Alteryx!

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[cgoodman3]

I think 5am wake ups are not optimal as making too many small mistakes!

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Decided to type out a-Z and accidently put z instead of x which was giving me the incorrect result which took an age to locate. On hindsight I don't know why I didn't look at the join outputs to see what didn't join.

[AkimasaKajitani]

@NicoleJ I know that you frequently use Make Column tool, but I have never tried to use it. However, in part 2 of Day 2,  certainly I felt that my workflow is verbose. So, in this case, I tried to use Make Column tool like NJ use.

I decided that if I can use it elsewhere, I would definitely use it!!! This is awesome tool! I wonder why this tool is still in the Laboratory category.

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