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Challenge #211: Generating Email Addresses

SylwiaDragon
8 - Asteroid

Done

RobbieA
8 - Asteroid

Solution for 211!

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BSilverblatt
8 - Asteroid

Thanks for the challenge! Here's my solution:

SPetrie
13 - Pulsar

Fun challenge

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MCooper
8 - Asteroid
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DanielvanLeuzen
9 - Comet

my solution

okimoto001
7 - Meteor

done

TonyAndriani
9 - Comet

Reposting under my new user ID.

mpennington
11 - Bolide

Nice exercise, but doing this in real life there would be the challenge of dealing with individuals with the same first initial and last name. I tested for it, but it didn't exist in this dataset.  

 

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Formula I used to create the emails once I tokenized the users. 
Uppercase(REGEX_Replace([Users], '(\w)(\w+)\s*(\w*)\s([A-z]*)(\d+)', '$1'))
+REGEX_Replace([Users], '(\w)(\w+)\s*(\w*)\s([A-z]*)(\d+)', '$4@testemail.com')​
FrederikE
13 - Pulsar
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