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<- set delimiter to none, and parse it with RegEx
<- set delimiter to none, and parse it with RegEx
This one could have been a lot more involved (read: interesting).
Parsing a small number of fields of a fixed-width file is easily done with a formula tool (substring command).
And the interactive chart part of the exercise required very little configuration.
I think that the most challenging part of this one was figuring out how to set up and configure things to get the column names from the separate input data to the metadata of the main dataset.
