Hey, Scripting Guy! Event 1 Solutions from Expert Commentators (Beginner and Advanced; 100-meter dash)

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patrikse — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:11:48 GMT

Hi,

what a great and simple solution for the advanced Powershell. The output will look a bit strange if the lines which are starting with a white-space gets enumerated.

To prevent this, I put the text file in an array and TRIM'ed away the white space for each entry. Output and sorted for the rest just like you did.

regards,

Patrik

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smurawski — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:40:24 GMT

Klaus,

Right you are. I actually caught that after I had submitted my solution a while ago and wanted to change my regexs to

PowerShell -

"^(?<Name>\w+?,\ .+?)\t(?<Country>.+?)\s+(?<Time>\d+\.\d+)$"

and Vbscript should be

"^(\w+?,\ .+?)\t(.+?)\s+(\d+\.\d+)$"

but it was a bit too late.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! Event 1 Solutions from Expert Commentators (Beginner and Advanced; 100-meter dash)

KSchulte — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:56:56 GMT

Dear Scripting Guys,

I just worked a little bit through the description of event 1 and read the solutions here :-)

Wonderful solutions, and I wonder, if I should add another, less brilliant, one to these!

One note to Steven's solution:

I would change the

[regex]$regex = "^(?<Name>\w+?,\ \w+?)\s+(?<Country>.+?)\s+(?<Time>\d+\.\d+)$"

[regex]$regex = "^(?<Name>[^\t]+)\t(?<Country>[^\t]+)\t(?<Time>\d+\.\d+)$"

Why? Not, because this one is shorter :-) it is a little bit "more correct" because you can't decide whether

Hansen, Anne Grethe Japan 8.85

is a two components first name or you have a country with two components like in:

Pfeiffer, Michael United States 8.85

In fact I thought that this problem couldn't be solved at first sight, but a close look into the text file revealed, that the three components are seperated by TAB characters, which makes it well possible to seperate the three parts correctly!

kind regards, Klaus

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Hey, Scripting Guy! Event 1 Solutions from Expert Commentators (Beginner and Advanced; 100-meter dash)

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