HEADLINES

Last week, we had the pleasure to interview our Champion of the Perl Weekly Challenge, Luca Ferrari. Please check out the full interview.

I noticed Team PWC members making constant noise, in a positive way, with regular blogs. To me personally, by reading blog, you not only get the story behind each solutions but the also the journey itself. Keep blogging and sharing knowledge.

I would like to thank Team PWC member Richard Park for introducing the amazing language APL. Although I know nothing about it but it seems cool the way symbols are used in the source code.

Last but not the least, I would like to thank each and every member for their support and encouragement.

RECAP

Quick recap of the “Perl Weekly Challenge - 059” by Mohammad S Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

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RAKU REVIEW

Please checkout Raku solutions review of the “Perl Weekly Challenge - 056” and “Perl Weekly Challenge - 057” by Laurent Rosenfeld.

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CHART

Please take a look at the charts showing interesting data.

I would like to thank every member of the team for their valuable suggestions. Please do share your experience with us.

NEW MEMBERS

Max Kossek, an experience Perl Hacker, shared solutions to “Perl Weekly Challenge - 001”, “Perl Weekly Challenge - 005”, “Perl Weekly Challenge - 007”, and “Perl Weekly Challenge - 008”.

Shawak, from Germany, shared solution to Task #2 in Ruby.

Sangeet Kar, originally from India currently based in Barcelona, Spain, shared his first contributions in Perl.

Please find out How to contribute?, if you have any doubts.

Please give it a try to an excellent tool EZPWC created by respected member Saif Ahmed of Team PWC.

GUESTS

Leo Manfredi shared solution to Task #2 in Python.

Richard Park shared solutions to Task #1 and Task #2 in APL.

Shawak shared solution to Task #2 in Ruby.

Please find out past solutions by respected guests. Please do share your creative solutions in other languages.

TASK #1 › Excel Column

Reviewed by: Ryan Thompson

Write a script that accepts a number and returns the Excel Column Name it represents and vice-versa.

Excel columns start at A and increase lexicographically using the 26 letters of the English alphabet, A..Z. After Z, the columns pick up an extra “digit”, going from AA, AB, etc., which could (in theory) continue to an arbitrary number of digits. In practice, Excel sheets are limited to 16,384 columns.

Example

Input Number: 28
Output: AB

Input Column Name: AD
Output: 30

TASK #2 › Find Numbers

Reviewed by: Ryan Thompson

Write a script that accepts list of positive numbers (@L) and two positive numbers $X and $Y.

The script should print all possible numbers made by concatenating the numbers from @L, whose length is exactly $X but value is less than $Y.

Example

Input:

@L = (0, 1, 2, 5);
$X = 2;
$Y = 21;

Output:

10, 11, 12, 15, 20

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 17th May 2020.