[Resolved] Checker for TX Border Patrol 5x5 Challenge - GC38YNJ

https://coord.info/GC38YNJ

This should be an easy one to create.

5 different caches type finds within any 5 day period in each of 5 states: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. so 25 finds total.

Approved cache types for this challenge: Traditional, Multi, Mystery, Virtual, Earthcache, Letterbox, WhereIgo, GPS Adventures Exhibit.

No find made before January 1st, 2011 can be counted.

Hm. I don't think this one will be very easy: the time-limited scripts that we have can't do more than one checker, and the "multiple test" scripts that we have can only do one-day, one-month, or one-year time limits. But I'll look around to see if a script is available...

(note to self: easy tagging might work, but is probably too slow)

...and I wrote another script:

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC38YNJ/80231

Just for the record, 99% of the time a new script isn't required because we can just reference an existing script. But it would seem as though Texas is the capitol of crazy-complicated-grandfathered-challenges, LOL. Hope this one works, because the code is a bit of an ugly mess.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/15/2023 06:57AM by Hügh. (view changes)

Wow, it looks good. works for me and also someone else who qualified. You can put it into production.

I found a minor glitch. The CO says five days, but then his example says Dec 20 thru Dec 25 which is 6 days.

"All five cache type finds for each state must be found within a five (5) day window.
Example:You make a trip to border state "A" & find a traditional on December 20th. The other 4 cache types for that state must be found by December 25th for all 5 of those caches to count for this challenge.


So can you change the time window to 6 days (inclusive)

This should change user Godot to qualified from not qualified as his Louisiana window was a12-18-17 to 12-23-17

Updated; the script now accepts a six-day window.

Godot does not qualify, because his find on the Virtual was in 2018, not 2017.

this one is complete.