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Challenge #245: Zip It Real Good

RichoBsJ
11 - Bolide
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Reesetrain2
9 - Comet
9 - Comet

My Submission

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 I used 4 Joins and a Union
-I used the text to Colum tool with a hyphen to break the gaps and then add rows to fill in the gaps. I also used a formula to add the leading zeros as that was tricky.
Finally for the military addresses (AA,AP,AE) and others I used a formula to hard code the assignment

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JP_SDAK
8 - Asteroid

I feel like I used a lot of extra tools, but I got there nonetheless.

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grazitti_sapna
17 - Castor

Here is my solution to the problem.

 

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Thanks.

Sapna Gupta
mustel
8 - Asteroid
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Not sure why I needed to remove duplicates at the end... will look into it when I get more time - as is all 42,004 match

KeithTroutt
8 - Asteroid

First challenged solve in a long time. 

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johnzrgu75
7 - Meteor

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PriyankaaJ
7 - Meteor

There were probably more elegant ways to do this, but my strategy was to isolate the records in Input 1 into 3 different categories based on the types of "Zip" given: entire state, rest of the state and the 1st 3 numbers of the zip. 

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Tyro_abc
11 - Bolide
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TonyA
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Had to wait for the weekend to start playing with this one. 

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