Challenge #16: Parsing Out the New-line Character

Here is a new challenge for this week. The link to the solution for last week’s challenge is HERE.

The use case:

We received some text data and that includes an embedded line-feed character.

The objective is to remove the new line character, convert the date-time string to a date-time formatted field and then do some renaming per the sample output.

Good luck, I look forward to your feedback.

challenge_16_solution.yxmd

challenge_16_start_file.yxmd

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TaraM

This one has been updated with a solution.

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kconner

Spoiler #2

Here is another approach..

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JoeM

@kconner - Nice solution! If you'd ever like the share the workflow file, the weekly challenge can now have files attached in responses!

mceleavey

Spoiler

I realise I've done this following the introduction of the data cleansing tool, but I think that's worth showcasing, so:

I simply fed the fields into the "Data Cleansing" tool, removed line breaks, then converted the date using the "Date Parse" tool. Then I simply renamed the columns appropriately and dropped the old date field.

challenge_16_solution.yxmd

MarqueeCrew

@JoeM

Friday is here

challenge_16_MarqueeCrew.yxmd

JoeM

@MarqueeCrew - It's a good day to make it to "base camp". One more!

SeanAdams

Original solution that I did was the same as provided - but when I looked at the answers provided by @MarqueeCrew and @mceleavey, wanted to add them as well to experiment and try them out, so all 3 are included.

Note: Only the solution from @mceleavey deals with the line-break gracefully and doesn't smash the words together at the end of the first line, and beginning of the next.

challenge_16_SeanAdams.yxmd

mceleavey

Thanks for that, @SeanAdams!

NicoleJohnson

Solution posted.

PS. I noticed in the solution output in the "Mary had a little lamb" poem that the space between "lamb" and "whose" was removed, I'm assuming due to leaving the box checked in Data Cleansing to remove white space. In this case, based on the poem output, I decided to leave that box unchecked so that the poem reads correctly with the space between the words that were initially separated by the newline character.

UPDATED: Aaaaaand since i didn't read any of the prior comments before posting my solution, I see now that @mceleavey & @SeanAdams already figured that out. Soooo I'm a bit late to the party. But at least I got there. And I usually bring cookies..

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challenge_16_NicoleJohnson.yxmd

rijuthav

My solution.

Used Data cleansing (same as Challenge #2)

challenge_16_solution - RV.yxmd

estherb47

challenge_16_EHB_solution.yxmd

tom_montpool

challenge_16_TomM.yxmd

Laurap1228

Practising my Regex

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challenge_16_LP.yxmd

MarvinPinto

Two solutions:

1: using the new data cleansing tool (Thank you @Alteryx for this tool)

2: using the Reg ex tool. @Seanadams i managed to work around the part where words were getting smashed into each other at he end of each line by using a blank value in the replacement text box.