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Challenge #489: From Chaos to Clarity

Saranya1995
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution!

Hub119
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Solution attached.

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Carolyn
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Solved. I did my parsing manually with RegEx and Data Cleanse, and then saw @caltang's smarter parsing as a flat file type.

 

Great challenge!

 

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lisahitch95
8 - Asteroid

Always fun to use Regex!

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RebekaMazuchova
8 - Asteroid

:)

Kilbyflow_Designer
8 - Asteroid

Complete!!

 

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mirzaglamocak_alteryx
8 - Asteroid
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dman2740
7 - Meteor
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Pay extra attention to how you read in the Input.txt file but other than that this is pretty straightforward.

mmontgomery
11 - Bolide
11 - Bolide

C489

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Powerhouse_21
10 - Fireball
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