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Challenge #188: Difficult, but not im-parse-able

nickjastrzebski
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Regex saves the day once again!

 

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JennyMartin
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We've all worked with a dataset like this out in the wild 😛

AngelosPachis
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My solution for challenge #188

 

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JethroChen
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seinchyiwoo
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

regex to the rescue:

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jamielaird
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Here's my solution:

 

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AkimasaKajitani
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

My solution.

 

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Paradox
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Carried the VAT number down, then filtered to the header and value rows. Marked delimiters, parsed, then replaced field names with the header row. The rest was formatting with Multi-Column and sorting.

WernerE
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JP_SDAK
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Good practice for advanced exam - but painful!

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