Get Inspire insights from former attendees in our AMA discussion thread on Inspire Buzz. ACEs and other community members are on call all week to answer!

Weekly Challenges

Solve the challenge, share your solution and summit the ranks of our Community!

Also available in | Français | Português | Español | 日本語
IDEAS WANTED

Want to get involved? We're always looking for ideas and content for Weekly Challenges.

SUBMIT YOUR IDEA

Challenge #13: HTML Table Parsing

moritzsturm
7 - Meteor

Solution attached.

Laszlo_D
8 - Asteroid

image.png

KatieA
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Solution attached!

rmassambane
10 - Fireball
 
Trumble_dup_334
7 - Meteor

Done it, but not sure how to show Nulls as [Null] rather than <Null>. Summarize tool maybe?

wwatson
12 - Quasar

My solution

JonathanW
8 - Asteroid

JonathanW_0-1578278513269.png

RWvanLeeuwen
11 - Bolide

Again my solution.

Spoiler
13 raw.png13 result.png


I thought I had submitted my solution, but when I ran the workflows from the index (next) this one was still empty somehow
Download this workflow created by @ Hannah_Lissama, @ Alekh, and @ mceleavey.
or try this app to download your unsolved challenges. (Created by: @ LordNeilLord)

 

andypick
8 - Asteroid

solution attached

 

Spoiler
Capture.PNG
SueDonim
8 - Asteroid

I admit to have learned much from @markp201 and a similar workflow he made for parsing HTML, though it did require some adaptation.  With that in place, it was all pretty straight-forward

 

Spoiler
Process:
- Remove line breaks and white space
- Remove all tags other than \td and \tr
- Clean-up
- Split row data into rows
- Split column data into columns
- Clean-up
- Trim whitespace
- Remove pipes
- Remove non-relevant records
- Convert empty cells to null

MySolution.PNG