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Challenge #458: Masking Alternating Characters

gawa
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Tool golf: One tool solution w/ Multi-row Formula.

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DaisukeTsuchiya
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar
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niklas_greilinger
11 - Bolide

My solution.

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binu_acs
21 - Polaris
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RWvanLeeuwen
11 - Bolide

another quick round of Alteryx

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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ARussell34
8 - Asteroid

Took me a minute to comprehend when to account for spaces or not for change of data value, but got the same end results!

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Milanz
9 - Comet

my solution ;-)

 

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pengg
7 - Meteor

Great challenge! There are two versions of the result - 1st character of each word as * or not. 

tammybrown_tds
9 - Comet

Took me a minute to figure out the proper REGEX.

 

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