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Challenge #19: Excel Record Locator

LukasJennings
8 - Asteroid
‎09-10-2020 10:16 AM
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david14
8 - Asteroid
‎09-11-2020 06:19 AM

Solution attached.

 

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Book1.xls
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Tony_Castillo
10 - Fireball
‎09-12-2020 08:59 AM

 

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A little different than the posted solution but still does the trick

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Tokimatsu
12 - Quasar
‎09-17-2020 02:46 AM

Solved.

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JasonHu
8 - Asteroid
‎09-19-2020 12:47 PM

 

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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris
‎09-20-2020 06:16 AM

Quite brutal way

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alexnajm
19 - Altair
19 - Altair
‎09-25-2020 11:27 AM

Done! 

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DataNexus
7 - Meteor
‎09-27-2020 04:44 AM

I did something very different to all the solutions I looked at. I brought in each via via 2 different inputs then joined them together using the file name.

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simbert
8 - Asteroid
‎09-29-2020 04:50 AM

Sample tool galore!

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bjkay30
8 - Asteroid
‎09-29-2020 10:57 AM

Pretty straightforward.  I used a few more tools than most but gets to the same result.

 

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