The Weekly Challenge

09. TASK #1: Greater Character

HEADLINES

Welcome to the Week #189 of The Weekly Challenge.

Two new members, Vamsi Meenavilli and Andrew Grangaard joined the Team PWC last week. With this we now have 275 members in the Team PWC.

Thanks Vamsi for your first contributions in Perl and Python.

Thanks Andrew for your first contributions in Perl, Python and Rust.

We are into the last week of Hacktoberfest 2022. Well done Team PWC for making it big week after week.



`Week`	`184`	`185`	`186`	`187`	`188`

`Perl`	57	61	58	51	63
`Raku`	31	35	33	34	36
`Blog`	17	19	20	20	16

Last week, we had 41 regular contributors and 18 guest contributors. Thank you everyone for the support and encouragement.

Today, we are giving away Token #12 to Ali Moradi for the book, Learning Perl Exercises by brian d foy. I will share the details with you in a separate email.

Past Winners



`S. No.`	`Name`	`S. No.`	`Name`

1.	Cheok-Yin Fung	2.	W. Luis Mochan
3.	Robert DiCicco	4.	Kueppo Wesley
5.	Solathian	6.	Dario Mazzeo
7.	Peter Campbell Smith	8.	Kjetil Skotheim
9.	Neils van Dijke	10.	Laurent Rosenfeld
11.	Duncan C. White	12.
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15.		16.
17.		18.
19.		20.
21.		22.
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25.		26.
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I would like to thank every guest contributors for making it special this time as we received 84 contributions in 26 languages.

Thank you, Ali Moradi, for introducing new language Nelua. As of today, we now have overall guest contributions in 92 languages on top of main contributing languages, Perl and Raku.

Last week, I managed to contribute in Perl, Raku, Python, Java and Swift after a long time.

Task #1: Divisible Pairs

[Perl] [Raku] [Python] [Java] [Swift]

Divisible Pairs

Task #2: Total Zero

[Perl] [Raku] [Python] [Java] [Swift]

Total Zero

TOP 10 Guest Languages

Do you see your favourite language in the Top 10? If not then why not contribute regularly and make it to the top.

 1. Python  (1163)
 2. Haskell (504)
 3. Ruby    (410)
 4. Lua     (397)
 5. C       (280)
 6. C++     (280)
 7. BQN     (265)
 8. Rust    (248)
 9. Go      (228)
10. Node.js (196)

Blogs with Creative Title

1. Pairs Divided by Zero by Adam Russell.

2. Zero Divisibility by Arne Sommer.

3. I have no time this week! by Luca Ferrari.

4. Divisible pairs and reduce to nothing by Peter Campbell Smith.

5. Divisible Zero by Roger Bell_West.

GitHub Repository Stats

1. Commits: 28,776 (+191)

2. Pull Requests: 6,994 (+49)

3. Contributors: 211 (+3)

4. Fork: 268 (+3)

5. Stars: 144

Our solo sponsor Pete Sergeant has been a great support to keep us motivated. We are lucky that he agreed to continue the journey with us in the year 2022. I would like to personally thank Pete and his entire team for their generosity. It would be great if we could add few more to sponsor the prize money so that we could go back and declare weekly champions as we have done in the past. I hope and wish this will become possible in 2022. The amount doesn’t have to be huge. However, it would be nice to show off bunch of supporters. If an organisation comes forward and supports us then that would be the ultimate achievement.

RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 188 by Mohammad S Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

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

RAKU REVIEW

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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

Vamsi Meenavilli, an experienced `Perl` hacker from `India`.

Andrew Grangaard, an experienced `Perl` hacker from `California`.

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 #188.

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

Task 1: Greater Character

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given an array of characters (a..z) and a target character.

Write a script to find out the smallest character in the given array lexicographically greater than the target character.

Example 1

Input: @array = qw/e m u g/, $target = 'b'
Output: e

Example 2

Input: @array = qw/d c e f/, $target = 'a'
Output: c

Example 3

Input: @array = qw/j a r/, $target = 'o'
Output: r

Example 4

Input: @array = qw/d c a f/, $target = 'a'
Output: c

Example 5

Input: @array = qw/t g a l/, $target = 'v'
Output: v

Task 2: Array Degree

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given an array of 2 or more non-negative integers.

Write a script to find out the smallest slice, i.e. contiguous subarray of the original array, having the degree of the given array.

The degree of an array is the maximum frequency of an element in the array.

Example 1

Input: @array = (1, 3, 3, 2)
Output: (3, 3)

The degree of the given array is 2.
The possible subarrays having the degree 2 are as below:
(3, 3)
(1, 3, 3)
(3, 3, 2)
(1, 3, 3, 2)

And the smallest of all is (3, 3).

Example 2

Input: @array = (1, 2, 1, 3)
Output: (1, 2, 1)

Example 3

Input: @array = (1, 3, 2, 1, 2)
Output: (2, 1, 2)

Example 4

Input: @array = (1, 1, 2, 3, 2)
Output: (1, 1)

Example 5

Input: @array = (2, 1, 2, 1, 1)
Output: (1, 2, 1, 1)

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 6th November 2022.