The Weekly Challenge

10. TASK #2: Consistent Strings

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Task 1: Same String

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given two arrays of strings.

Write a script to find out if the word created by concatenating the array elements is the same.

Example 1

Input: @arr1 = ("ab", "c")
       @arr2 = ("a", "bc")
Output: true

Using @arr1, word1 => "ab" . "c" => "abc"
Using @arr2, word2 => "a" . "bc" => "abc"

Example 2

Input: @arr1 = ("ab", "c")
       @arr2 = ("ac", "b")
Output: false

Using @arr1, word1 => "ab" . "c" => "abc"
Using @arr2, word2 => "ac" . "b" => "acb"

Example 3

Input: @arr1 = ("ab", "cd", "e")
       @arr2 = ("abcde")
Output: true

Using @arr1, word1 => "ab" . "cd" . "e" => "abcde"
Using @arr2, word2 => "abcde"

Task 2: Consistent Strings

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given an array of strings and allowed string having distinct characters.

A string is consistent if all characters in the string appear in the string allowed.

Write a script to return the number of consistent strings in the given array.

Example 1

Input: @str = ("ad", "bd", "aaab", "baa", "badab")
       $allowed = "ab"
Output: 2

Strings "aaab" and "baa" are consistent since they only contain characters 'a' and 'b'.

Example 2

Input: @str = ("a", "b", "c", "ab", "ac", "bc", "abc")
       $allowed = "abc"
Output: 7

Example 3

Input: @str = ("cc", "acd", "b", "ba", "bac", "bad", "ac", "d")
       $allowed = "cad"
Output: 4

Strings "cc", "acd", "ac", and "d" are consistent.

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 22nd October 2023.