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Day 53

Friday, 25 September 2026

Beginner

Build a plain-text urgency bar and price each line for an emailed restock report

REPT repeats a character exactly as many times as you tell it to, and DOLLAR turns a plain number into the currency text a chart-free email actually needs — neither one reads what the other produces.

Task:

You handle inventory for a hardware store, and mornings start with an automated reorder email that goes out as plain text — no images, no embedded charts, just characters a mail client can render. Four products need restocking today. In column D, build a quick urgency bar for each one using REPT, one "■" character per unit needed, so a reader can see which products are furthest behind at a glance. In column E, show what restocking each product will cost — units needed times unit cost — formatted as currency text with DOLLAR, rounded to two decimal places, ready to paste straight into that email.

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