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Challenge #262: With-invoice

AYXAcademy
Alteryx
Alteryx

A solution to last week's challenge can be found here262_image_crop.png

 

This week's challenge was submitted by @phottovy  - Thanks for your submission!

 

After using Alteryx for a while now, you are starting to feel like your company's parsing all-star, or Par-Star as you call yourself, a term that hasn't caught on within your department for some reason. Knowing full well how confident you are in your abilities, your boss comes to both you and your work nemesis from a rival department with a report from a new external source and asks both of you to clean it up and extract the relevant information. Will you be able to keep your self-imposed status on your team or will you have to hand over your championship belt (also self-made) to someone else? You better get started!

Aaron_Harter
11 - Bolide

Fun data janitor exercise!

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PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

My solution attached in which I get the headers dynamically,

 

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Blake
12 - Quasar

Thanks for the challenge, @phottovy!

 

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AkimasaKajitani
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

My solution.

 

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JITHINPR
8 - Asteroid

my solution

DeanWest
9 - Comet

Fun data prep challenge to start off the week!

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BeginnerMindset
8 - Asteroid

Fun challenge.  Hard part was trying to pull the column headers out dynamically and trying to produce a generalized solution.

 

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Luke_C
17 - Castor

Used the dashes to help figure out how many characters to parse out for each field

 

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

I think I saw the "Par-Star" at Inspire Nashville 2019 with his belt:

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I tried to make it more dynamic, but it feels overcomplicated now. You still have to manually enter line numbers as user constants.
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