The Weekly Challenge

HEADLINES

Welcome to the Week #279 of The Weekly Challenge.

Thank you, Cheok-Yin Fung, for sharing contributions in Lisp for [Week #258 | Week #271 | Week #273 | Week #278].

Welcome back, Lance Wicks, and thanks for sharing solution to Task #1 in Perl.

Congratulation to Laurent Rosenfeld for being Rank #1 contributor with total score of 2744. The total contributions as of today:

 1. Perl: 491
 2. Raku: 505
 3. Blog: 376

Congratulation to Roger Bell_West for being Rank #1 guest contributor with total contributions 2296 as of today:

 1. Bash      : 1
 2. Crystal   : 20
 3. JavaScript: 251
 4. Kotla     : 256
 5. Lua       : 246
 6. PostScript: 294
 7. Python    : 391
 8. Ruby      : 379
 9. Rust      : 373
10. Scala     : 85

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


`Week`	`Perl`	`Raku`	`Blog`
`274`	45	27	17
`275`	51	25	23
`276`	62	32	27
`277`	66	30	29
`278`	57	28	24

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


`Week`	`Guests`	`Contributions`	`Languages`
`274`	12	58	16
`275`	14	60	19
`276`	16	74	21
`277`	16	53	18
`278`	13	68	21

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     (2658)
 2. Ruby       (707)
 3. Haskell    (688)
 4. Rust       (687)
 5. Lua        (624)
 6. C          (565)
 7. C++        (526)
 8. JavaScript (451)
 9. Go         (388)
10. BQN        (350)

Blogs with Creative Title

1. Sginrt and droW by Andrew Schneider.

2. Sort of Reverse by Arne Sommer.

3. Split, Sort and Join by Jorg Sommrey.

4. CHALLENGES (almost) IN A ROW! by Luca Ferrari.

5. Word Reverse String Sort by Packy Anderson.

6. Tangled string and drow by Peter Campbell Smith.

7. Reverse the Sort in Strings of Words by Roger Bell_West.

GitHub Repository Stats

1. Commits: 39,101 (`+102`)

2. Pull Requests: 10,452 (`+37`)

3. Contributors: 249

4. Fork: 314

5. Stars: 174

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RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 278 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 #278.

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

Task 1: Sort Letters

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given two arrays, @letters and @weights.

Write a script to sort the given array @letters based on the @weights.

Example 1

Input: @letters = ('R', 'E', 'P', 'L')
       @weights = (3, 2, 1, 4)
Output: PERL

Example 2

Input: @letters = ('A', 'U', 'R', 'K')
       @weights = (2, 4, 1, 3)
Output: RAKU

Example 3

Input: @letters = ('O', 'H', 'Y', 'N', 'P', 'T')
       @weights = (5, 4, 2, 6, 1, 3)
Output: PYTHON

Task 2: Split String

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a string, $str.

Write a script to split the given string into two containing exactly same number of vowels and return true if you can otherwise false.

Example 1

Input: $str = "perl"
Ouput: false

Example 2

Input: $str = "book"
Ouput: true

Two possible strings "bo" and "ok" containing exactly one vowel each.

Example 3

Input: $str = "good morning"
Ouput: true

Two possible strings "good " and "morning" containing two vowels each or "good m" and "orning" containing two vowels each.

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