The Weekly Challenge

09. TASK #1: Percentage of Character

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Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 272 by Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

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NEW MEMBERS

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2. `Santiago Leyva`. an experienced `Perl` hacker from `South America` joined `Team PWC`.

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Task 1: Percentage of Character

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a string, $str and a character $char.

Write a script to return the percentage, nearest whole, of given character in the given string.

Example 1

Input: $str = "perl", $char = "e"
Output: 25

Example 2

Input: $str = "java", $char = "a"
Output: 50

Example 3

Input: $str = "python", $char = "m"
Output: 0

Example 4

Input: $str = "ada", $char = "a"
Output: 67

Example 5

Input: $str = "ballerina", $char = "l"
Output: 22

Example 6

Input: $str = "analitik", $char = "k"
Output: 13

Task 2: B After A

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a string, $str.

Write a script to return true if there is at least one b, and no a appears after the first b.

Example 1

Input: $str = "aabb"
Output: true

Example 2

Input: $str = "abab"
Output: false

Example 3

Input: $str = "aaa"
Output: false

Example 4

Input: $str = "bbb"
Output: true

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 16th June 2024.