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Challenge #402: Parsing Equipment Tags

nSpire
8 - Asteroid
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braveraj
10 - Fireball
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TonyAndriani
9 - Comet

My solution.

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nhardin
7 - Meteor
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logdog0411
8 - Asteroid
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AndrewDMerrill
13 - Pulsar

This was a good challenge! Interesting workflow.

 

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SandroGerber
8 - Asteroid
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harsesh
6 - Meteoroid

My Solution 

olga_strubbe
10 - Fireball

Thank you, @AYXAcademy for a fun challenge!

And big thanks to  @alexnajm and @Federica_FF  for sharing a resource (link below) for how to convert letters to a number sequence!

Solved: Generate Rows: increment letters like numbers - Alteryx Community

 

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ggruccio
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

I probably took the long road!  😂

 

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I can't resist using iterative macros!  I wasn't sure the generate rows tool could handle letters so I assigned each letter a number then passed each row into the macro and generated rows between the starting and ending 'letter'.  Then converted the output back to letters.  Throw in some Regex and we have a new tag!

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And the macro:

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