Challenge #45: Parsing Bureau of Labor Data

[GeneR]

 Thanks for your participation so far. If you would like to see the solution to last week's challenge, check it out HERE.

This week we will be using the download tool to pull some public employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Once downloaded the data needs to parsed into the required format to prepare it for use.  I have also provided a snapshot of the input data if you have firewall issues accessing the data from the URL, you won't need it if you use the download tool.   If your results differ slightly in row content, the data may have changed at the URL…

Use Case:  The input data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/compaes.txt) needs to be downloaded and formatted for analytics.  The data set details employee statistics that are adjusted seasonally.

Objective: Download the data from the URL then parse it to match the output shown in the sample output.

[MattD]

Here's a solution:

[Joe_Mako]

Here is another route:

[SeanAdams]

Similar solution approach as @MattD and @Joe_Mako

My results don't match perfectly though because the data on the website has moved on (i.e. 2015 vs. 2014 data)

:-) that took way too long to diagnose the problem with the results...

[NicoleJohnson]

My solution. 

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RegEx for the win! Seriously my new favorite tool. Pretty sure my last 10 workflows have contained it in some shape or form... possibly whether they needed it or not.  Challenge #20 was fighting me on the RegEx front a couple weeks ago - might be time to go tackle again... :)

[estherb47]

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[LordNeilLord]

This is probably the most tools I've used in a challenge so far...I'm not proud of myself But if it works...it works!

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[jamielaird]

Here's my solution.  Fun parsing challenge.

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[nick_ceneviva]

Solution Attached

[patrick_digan]

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EDIT: I learned a lot from other's solutions on this one!