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Challenge #2: Preparing Delimited Data

ctrl_kudorje
8 - Asteroid

Here's to the second submission. One area I had different was that I chose to ignore delimiters in the column split tool, therefore allowing me to do a bit of the cleaning upfront.

Ella
5 - Atom

Solved :)

LaurenU
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

First time using the Data Cleansing Tool! Here is my solution. :)

 

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kturner002
5 - Atom

First weekly challenge

apoorvashetty
6 - Meteoroid

I've used a combination of Text to columns, Data Cleansing and date-time format tool to achieve the solution.

asteryx
8 - Asteroid

Another string split, data cleanser and string-to-date solution

FredySantana
7 - Meteor

My solution 

DiegoParker
10 - Fireball

Done!

Spainey
9 - Comet

My solution attached:

 

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I used the Text To Columns tool, specifying the comma character as the delimiter to break the string into 3 new columns. I then used the Data Cleansing tool to remove the Punctuation on the newly created columns (1,2 and 3). The DateTime tool under the Parse category allowed me to specify a custom date format of "ddMonyy" (since I had removed Punctuation from the entire string, including the hyphens), I took the opportunity to Rename this new Date column. I then used a Select tool to select the required columns and apply the correct names and data types to them.

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abinder
6 - Meteoroid

Attached my solution