The Weekly Challenge

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Welcome to the Week #266 of The Weekly Challenge.

Normally we focus on varieties of solutions in different languages every week but never talked about blog post we received every week. We have handful of regulars who blog every week without fail. It would be unfair if I name one but you know who I am talking about. I would like to take this opportunity and thank each bloggers for their dedication. I know it is time consuming to write engaging blog post. Infact, it takes more time to blog than code, in my personal experience. It is the blog post that shares the background story behind each solution. It is not easy to extract that information by reading the code. Looking at the last 5 weeks stats, we are getting 25 or more blog post every week. First thing that catches my attention is the title of the post. If you take a closer look of weekly contributions, you will find some very creative title.

Keep it up great work and share the knowledge with the team.

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


`Week`	`Perl`	`Raku`	`Blog`
`261`	55	32	25
`262`	59	32	25
`263`	61	34	28
`264`	50	34	26
`265`	54	32	26

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


`Week`	`Guests`	`Contributions`	`Languages`
`261`	18	79	24
`262`	18	80	24
`263`	19	79	23
`264`	14	66	20
`265`	12	52	16

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     (2441)
 2. Ruby       (674)
 3. Haskell    (656)
 4. Rust       (608)
 5. Lua        (594)
 6. C          (528)
 7. C++        (500)
 8. JavaScript (397)
 9. Go         (353)
10. BQN        (331)

Blogs with Creative Title

1. 33% Word by Arne Sommer.

2. Matter Of Fact, It’s All Dark by Dave Jacoby.

3. For Almost a Third Complete by Jorg Sommrey.

4. arrays and dictionaries by Luca Ferrari.

5. Completing a Third of an Appearance by Packy Anderson.

6. Frequent number and shortest word by Peter Campbell Smith.

7. The Appearance of Completion by Roger Bell_West.

8. Completing Appearance by Simon Green.

GitHub Repository Stats

1. Commits: 37,722 (`+111`)

2. Pull Requests: 9,954 (`+30`)

3. Contributors: 243

4. Fork: 308 (`+2`)

5. Stars: 171

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RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 265 by Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

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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 #265.

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

Task 1: Uncommon Words

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given two sentences, $line1 and $line2.

Write a script to find all uncommmon words in any order in the given two sentences. Return ('') if none found.

A word is uncommon if it appears exactly once in one of the sentences and doesn’t appear in other sentence.

Example 1

Input: $line1 = 'Mango is sweet'
       $line2 = 'Mango is sour'
Output: ('sweet', 'sour')

Example 2

Input: $line1 = 'Mango Mango'
       $line2 = 'Orange'
Output: ('Orange')

Example 3

Input: $line1 = 'Mango is Mango'
       $line2 = 'Orange is Orange'
Output: ('')

Task 2: X Matrix

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a square matrix, $matrix.

Write a script to find if the given matrix is X Matrix.

A square matrix is an X Matrix if all the elements on the main diagonal and antidiagonal are non-zero and everything else are zero.

Example 1

Input: $matrix = [ [1, 0, 0, 2],
                   [0, 3, 4, 0],
                   [0, 5, 6, 0],
                   [7, 0, 0, 1],
                 ]
Output: true

Example 2

Input: $matrix = [ [1, 2, 3],
                   [4, 5, 6],
                   [7, 8, 9],
                 ]
Output: false

Example 3

Input: $matrix = [ [1, 0, 2],
                   [0, 3, 0],
                   [4, 0, 5],
                 ]
Output: true

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 28th April 2024.