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Challenge #443: Mystery of the Unjoined Records

Spainey
9 - Comet

Nice and easy. I used Regex: 

 

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REGEX_Replace([Item Number], ".*?(A\d{4}).?", "$1")

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3I_ATLAS
9 - Comet

IMO the ideal and elegant solution is ToddW - RegEx solution:
https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Discussions/Elegantly-remove-all-ASCII-cha...

Send ToddW some extra cool points to for the elegant solution!  Thanks Todd!

 

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ToddW - RegEx solution: [^x20-x7e]+
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SamBreen
8 - Asteroid
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 My solution. Mildly frustrating figuring what was wrong and then realising the solution was super simple.

dbelisle
7 - Meteor

Had to use the hints, but I'm still learning.

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Solution attached.

 

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jfissel
8 - Asteroid
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KLTerrell
8 - Asteroid

I went with a sort and "join multiple" tool... I'm not sure if it's scalable, but I do think it is if the only issue is nonprintables. For this dataset it worked, anyway!

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JBevan89
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached

mgaronson
11 - Bolide
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 Regex - 2 ways

JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Challenge Completed

 

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