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Got stuck on the RegEx so had to get some help, but I learned from it (which I guess is the point of these, right?). Lots more clean-up than expected
Spoiler
Process
- Join three tables
- RegEx to parse title, year, and issue
- Clean-up and rename fields
- Replace title if it didn't come through in RegEx (where there was no publication year or issue)
- Clean-up nulls in Issue #
- Sort
- De-dupe
- Final clean-up
- Join three tables
- RegEx to parse title, year, and issue
- Clean-up and rename fields
- Replace title if it didn't come through in RegEx (where there was no publication year or issue)
- Clean-up nulls in Issue #
- Sort
- De-dupe
- Final clean-up
Didn't put much effort into addressing the ~2k difference in record, but it looks like many people had difficulty here.
The solution on the post shows an even much larger difference which I found strange.
