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Challenge #4: Date Parsing

JORGE4900
8 - Asteroid

I submitted this challenge over 5 years ago. Back then, I had many difficulties parsing extra characters and creating many columns.

 

This is a preview of my solution in 2017

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This time I still struggled  with greediness of the .*--(any character zero or more times) because it was eating up one of the day digits; I had to take a refresher video on the difference of the greedy .* and non-greedy .*? to fix this issue. After that, it was smooth sailing.

 

Here is the updated solution with less columns generated for today.

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poushali96
7 - Meteor

Attaching my solution for challenge 4.

TungThanhHo
8 - Asteroid

solution

NicolasSz
11 - Bolide

This is my solution

pmyers
Alteryx
Alteryx
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gabrielamitache
6 - Meteoroid

challenge 4 solution

Linas
8 - Asteroid
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Dantastic
8 - Asteroid

solved

JosephAskew
7 - Meteor

Learned quite a few things with this one. 

CammyPhillips
8 - Asteroid
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