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Challenge #53: Parsing Report Formatted Data

Jonathan-Sherman
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

A nice simple way to go about it!

 

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Vidya26
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My Solution!!

nickjastrzebski
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No macro here, but should function dynamically with varying numbers of columns. The only part that isn't dynamic is the clientid field as this has a different formatting requirement to clienttimeprop.

 

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piotrzawistowski
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Verakso
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Here is my take, not using macro, but I still believe it is dynamic...

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Well sort of, there still is the "assumption" that the data starts with a pipe character, and therefore it is filtered out 😮

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Cosmin_S
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My solution (similar to others).

smoskowitz
クエーサー

This was a good one. Had me think for a while. Loved it!

smoskowitz
クエーサー

My solution attached! 😄

AndrewRein
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fmeo
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