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Challenge #36: Data Cleansing Extract Authors

patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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Natasha
9 - Comet

I tried the summarise tool at the beginning but there were not enough space to concatenate all authors, so took another approach with a cross tab. 

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JoshKushner
12 - Quasar

I am quite please with how elegant this solution is. EXCELENT challenge.

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samN
10 - Fireball

Regex will never fail me...I hope

ggruccio
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

More fun with parsing and assembling tables!

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Solution attached.

 

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LandonG
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached.

jasperlch
12 - Quasar

Solution attached.

msicak
8 - Asteroid

my good old multirow friend.

 

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jamielaird
14 - Magnetar

Solution attached. Nice example of why I never rely on commas as delimiters if I can help it.

 

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