I know I did a lousy job of explaining above, but here's another example from today where the inflate tool that came in handy. This one also pertains to the Combos Which Have NOT Fallen This Year in Virginia. We have the list, it's this: 079 126 149 006 022 033 088 112 116 117 155 335 338 399 455 599 688 699 000 111 222 333 777 999
The question was, When was the last time these numbers hit? So, I inflated the combos in RegEx mode and searched backward using a macro and I have the list in a jif.
The inflated combo list looks like this:
000|006|022|033|060|079|088|097|111|112|116|117|121|126|149|155|161|162|171|194|202|211|216|220|222|261|303|330|333|335|338|353|383|399|419|455|491|515|533|545|551|554|599|600|611|612|621|688|699|709|711|777|790|808|833|868|880|886|907|914|939|941|959|969|970|993|995|996|999
I dropped that in the search engine and collected the numbers to get the list someone originally asked for as follows:
12/30/2018,022,243
12/11/2018,333,384
11/17/2018,914,146
11/15/2018,700,261
11/12/2018,868,765
10/19/2018,617,833
10/15/2018,121,775
10/09/2018,790,319
10/05/2018,016,330
08/30/2018,116,632
08/25/2018,117,444
08/17/2018,554,042
08/09/2018,793,993
08/02/2018,433,533
06/24/2018,088,252
03/07/2018,006,000
02/16/2018,515,865
10/19/2017,459,999
04/02/2017,777,932
02/27/2017,930,699
01/01/2017,295,959
05/17/2015,628,111
05/17/2012,222,632
It's still a bit of work to produce the final list, but the inflate tool gets rid of some of the busywork.