The Weekly Challenge

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Welcome to Week #182 of the weekly challenge.

Today, we are giving away Token #5 to Solathian for the book, Learning Perl Exercises by brian d foy. I will share the details with you in a separate email.

Past Winners

1) Cheok-Yin Fung
2) W. Luis Mochan
3) Robert DiCicco
4) Kueppo Wesley

Welcome back, Dave Jacoby after the break and thanks for your contributions.

This week, I could only get the Perl solutions done.

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This week C++ moved up one place to rank #5.

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2. Hot Sentence by Arne Sommer.

3. An Orderly Sentencing by Colin Crain.

4. Back In The Saddle by Dave Jacoby.

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RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 181 by Mohammad S Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

Please check out Perl solutions review of The Weekly Challenge - 175 by Colin Crain.

If you missed any past reviews then please check out the collection.

RAKU REVIEW

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CHART

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

NEW MEMBERS

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

Please try the excellent tool EZPWC created by respected member Saif Ahmed of Team PWC.

GUESTS

Please check out the guest contributions for the Week #181.

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

Task 1: Max Index

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given a list of integers.

Write a script to find the index of the first biggest number in the list.

Example

Input: @n = (5, 2, 9, 1, 7, 6)
Output: 2 (as 3rd element in the list is the biggest number)


Input: @n = (4, 2, 3, 1, 5, 0)
Output: 4 (as 5th element in the list is the biggest number)

Task 2: Common Path

Submitted by: Julien Fiegehenn

Given a list of absolute Linux file paths, determine the deepest path to the directory that contains all of them.

Example

Input:
    /a/b/c/1/x.pl
    /a/b/c/d/e/2/x.pl
    /a/b/c/d/3/x.pl
    /a/b/c/4/x.pl
    /a/b/c/d/5/x.pl

Ouput:
    /a/b/c

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 18th September 2022.