mister.magoo (1/13/2013)
And another Tally type version, but seems faster to me...
That's solid. I meant to come back to this because using RANK seemed clunky and I knew there had to a better way. Thanks for refreshing my memory on the XML PATH technique to pivot the good chars back into a string without a delimiter. The method you showed is clearly a better solution than mine but it was a fun exercise nonetheless.
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