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Challenge #53: Parsing Report Formatted Data

paul_houghton
12 - Quasar

Nice and Clean I think in my catch up

 

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msicak
8 - Asteroid

not sure if my solution is dynamic enough, but it should account for more columns and definitely more rows if necessary. Avoided macros for now. 

 

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jamielaird
14 - Magnetar

I decided to use Regex to determine the number of columns (N) by counting the | character in the first row and subtracting 1, then splitting to rows and numbering the rows from 1 to N, then adding record IDs and re-shaping the data. This feels like it should stand up to a lot of variance in the input data format.

 

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JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Challenge Completed

dsmdavid
11 - Bolide

Multi-row approach

 

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kcgreen
8 - Asteroid

This was a challenging one.  

 

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I had to borrow from the  Automatically Remove All Null Columns thread to make it work.  I learned some new tricks.  I'd never used Dynamic Select before and I never would have come up with the Dyanamic Rename/Transpose/Summarize/Rename portion of my solution had I not read that thread.

 

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robcarroll
7 - Meteor

All done 

CHarrison
8 - Asteroid

My solution :) 

ponraj
13 - Pulsar
 
daniel_ferreira
8 - Asteroid

Follow my solution file attached...