The Weekly Challenge

01. HEADLINES

02. SPONSOR

03. RECAP

04. PERL REVIEW

05. RAKU REVIEW

06. CHART

07. NEW MEMBERS

08. GUESTS

09. TASK #1: Maximum Pairs

10. TASK #2: Merge Strings

HEADLINES

Welcome to the Week #256 of The Weekly Challenge.

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


`Week`	`Perl`	`Raku`	`Blog`
`251`	51	33	23
`252`	54	35	23
`253`	53	29	25
`254`	53	32	26
`255`	55	30	26

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


`Week`	`Guests`	`Contributions`	`Languages`
`251`	16	53	16
`252`	19	72	22
`253`	17	60	19
`254`	17	62	20
`255`	17	60	18

TOP 10 Guest Languages

Last week, we saw movement in the ranking, JavaScript moved up one place to the rank #9. Congratulations all JavaScript contributors.

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     (2202)
 2. Ruby       (650)
 3. Haskell    (631)
 4. Lua        (576)
 5. Rust       (522)
 6. C          (479)
 7. C++        (478)
 8. Go         (325)
 9. JavaScript (317)
10. BQN        (315)

Blogs with Creative Title

1. Mostly Odd by Arne Sommer.

2. Preel Weeakly by Dave Jacoby.

3. Frequent Oddities by Jorg Sommrey.

4. Banned Words and Exceeding Letters by Luca Ferrari.

5. Odd Char Seems to be the Most Frequent Word by Packy Anderson.

6. An odd character’s nearly best word by Peter Campbell Smith.

7. Most Frequently Odd Character by Roger Bell_West.

8. The most odd thing by Simon Green.

GitHub Repository Stats

1. Commits: 36,544 (`+117`)

2. Pull Requests: 9,548 (`+45`)

3. Contributors: 243

4. Fork: 306

5. Stars: 167

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RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 255 by Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

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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

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 #255.

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

Task 1: Maximum Pairs

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given an array of distinct words, @words.

Write a script to find the maximum pairs in the given array. The words $words[i] and $words[j] can be a pair one is reverse of the other.

Example 1

Input: @words = ("ab", "de", "ed", "bc")
Output: 1

There is one pair in the given array: "de" and "ed"

Example 2

Input: @words = ("aa", "ba", "cd", "ed")
Output: 0

Example 3

Input: @words = ("uv", "qp", "st", "vu", "mn", "pq")
Output: 2

Task 2: Merge Strings

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given two strings, $str1 and $str2.

Write a script to merge the given strings by adding in alternative order starting with the first string. If a string is longer than the other then append the remaining at the end.

Example 1

Input: $str1 = "abcd", $str2 = "1234"
Output: "a1b2c3d4"

Example 2

Input: $str1 = "abc", $str2 = "12345"
Output: "a1b2c345"

Example 3

Input: $str1 = "abcde", $str2 = "123"
Output: "a1b2c3de"

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 18th February 2024.