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Challenge #11: Identify Logical Groups

RebekaMazuchova
Asteroide

:)

Will_Condon
Asteroide

Used RegEx tool for search,  then Search/Replace tool for join. Prep for Core Cert.

 

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Louie-Horn
Meteoro

Finished

Dhrish
Asteroide

Solution

tsawa
Asteroide

My soluton

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FlaviaNC_21
Meteoro

Completed

 

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icchung
Asteroide
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Long but simple

Garrett_Stoker
Asteroide
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jrlindem
Púlsar

Looking back on the different solutions, there's a lot of Parse Tool use.  I ended up going with the Formula Tool and identifying the "buckets" one by one.  This is, of course, not as scalable, so I think I would go the Parse route for real-world use as it scales better... 

 

<also swapped out the input file and copied into a text tool to avoid re-packaging>

 

After the "parsing" my solution re-aligns with majority of the solutions.  Here's my solution:

 

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JoeHughes137
Meteoro
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Solved using batch macro