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Challenge #267: To Quote The Alphabet

NicoleJohnson
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

My solution!

 

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There is surely a more efficient solution than this... but it works.

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Cheers!

NJ

JoshuaGostick
12 - Quasar

My solution

 

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estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Love textual analysis 🙂

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BSilverblatt
8 - Asteroid

Thanks for the challenge! Here is my solution:

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Here is my take on it

 

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summit_view
8 - Asteroid

Used a macro to go through each string separately.  Within each string split string into rows to find character at end of longest string.

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Watermark
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar
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chadw913
7 - Meteor

I created a standard macro since I saw a "Macro" label for this challenge. Turns out an iterative macro was used in the solution. I see others had the same thought process on how to solve this without an iterative macro, so... I'm satisfied with my solution.

Workflow:

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Standard Macro:

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geoff_zath
Alteryx
Alteryx
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leozhang2work
10 - Fireball
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