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Challenge #56: Parsing and Counting Hashtags

mceleavey
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Good call.

Seconded.



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JoeM
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

The solution for Challenge #56 is now posted! It's great to see the many way this was solved!

 

SeanAdams
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

kinda a mix between a few of the solutions posted above.

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I used the text-to-column to split at the hash mark into rows, so that it can work over any number of hashtags in the text (probably a smarter way to do this using a tokenize in RegEx, but this was dead quick
Then regexed out the hashtag
then summarized it all up using a crosstab and a dynamic rename with formula


NicoleJohnson
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

My solution! :) [Edited to actually include the solution now... oops.]

 

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estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

another fun one! 

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Natasha
9 - Comet

I don't use regex a lot, so got stuck for quite some time on rows with several hashtags.

 

 

 

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LordNeilLord
15 - Aurora

I spent ages trying to get the RegEx right but once I had conquered that the rest was plain sailing:

 

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nick_ceneviva
11 - Bolide

Solution Attached

jamielaird
14 - Magnetar

Here's my solution.

 

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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