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Challenge #78: Find the Best Housing Markets

sachinw
8 - Asteroid

My Solution:

SueDonim
8 - Asteroid

OK, I'm sure there are some ways to simplify this.  For one thing, I parsed more than I should,  I kept topping out the RegEx tool's ability to parse, but a lot of that is I was thinking I had to parse out the individual city names that were hyphenated.

 

That said, it works, and I learned a lot about RegEx - trial by fire and all that....

 

Hey, that was my 100th challenge completed!  Happy anniversary to me....

 

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Process:
- Ugh.  It's too long to describe.  But I do note that it was a lot easier once I started parsing data in blocks (including from right to left) than in trying to do everything left to right as I was initially.  It also helped to mix use of RegEx tool and Text to Columns tool

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JamesCameron
8 - Asteroid

My Effort

 

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JamesCameron
8 - Asteroid

And now the App version

 

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danicahui
8 - Asteroid
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nini
8 - Asteroid

good practice of Apps, thanks!

ArnavS
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
 
Xiaoqi
7 - Meteor
 
EW
11 - Bolide

My solution:

 

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RegEx worked great for splitting the data into columns!
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