Lonkero: Sorry to hear about the car.

Everybody: Congratulations to those impressive scores.

Unfortunately, I didn't find time to improve my solution to under 1000. I'm at about 1800 since about Wednesday without removing some error checking code and shortiening variable names to one-letter names.

I have to say, I really like the regular expressions approach, even if it doesn't result in the best score.

Anyway, time until Wednesday to improve scores.

Finally, I'm open for new ideas for the next challenge. I will try and prepare the next challenge a little bit better, too.
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