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Welcome to the Week #230 of The Weekly Challenge.

This week challenge is coming from my native town, Jamshedpur, India.

Last 5 weeks mainstream contribution stats. Thank you Team PWC for your support and encouragements.


`Week`	`Perl`	`Raku`	`Blog`
`225`	56	31	24
`226`	59	32	25
`227`	53	30	26
`228`	58	28	24
`229`	57	30	24

Last 5 weeks guest contribution stats. Thank you each and every guest contributors for your time and efforts.


`Week`	`Guests`	`Contributions`	`Languages`
`225`	13	63	21
`226`	13	52	14
`227`	09	36	11
`228`	15	57	18
`229`	13	55	17

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     (1745)
 2. Haskell    (574)
 3. Ruby       (563)
 4. Lua        (501)
 5. C          (433)
 6. Rust       (412)
 7. C++        (396)
 8. BQN        (305)
 9. Go         (262)
10. JavaScript (243)

Blogs with Creative Title

1. Indexed bits by Andreas Voegele.

2. Out of Order by Arne Sommer.

3. Don’t be Sad by Dave Jacoby.

4. One for the Regex, and Two for the Three by Matthias Muth.

5. This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it? by Packy Anderson.

6. Count the unsorted and two thirds is enough by Peter Campbell Smith.

7. Three, Two, Out of Order by Roger Bell_West.

GitHub Repository Stats

1. Commits: 33,737 (`+121`)

2. Pull Requests: 8,538 (`+37`)

3. Contributors: 227

4. Fork: 286

5. Stars: 162

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 2023. 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 2023. 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 - 229 by Mohammad S Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

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RAKU REVIEW

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CHART

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NEW MEMBERS

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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 #229.

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

Task 1: Separate Digits

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given an array of positive integers.

Write a script to separate the given array into single digits.

Example 1

Input: @ints = (1, 34, 5, 6)
Output: (1, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Example 2

Input: @ints = (1, 24, 51, 60)
Output: (1, 2, 4, 5, 1, 6, 0)

Task 2: Count Words

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given an array of words made up of alphabetic characters and a prefix.

Write a script to return the count of words that starts with the given prefix.

Example 1

Input: @words  = ("pay", "attention", "practice", "attend")
       $prefix = "at"
Ouput: 2

Two words "attention" and "attend" starts with the given prefix "at".

Example 2

Input: @words  = ("janet", "julia", "java", "javascript")
       $prefix = "ja"
Ouput: 3

Three words "janet", "java" and "javascripr" starts with the given prefix "ja".

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 20th August 2023.