The Weekly Challenge

09. TASK #1: String Compression

10. TASK #2: Matchstick Square

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4. loops and substitutions by Luca Ferrari.

5. Jump, but Don’t Break the Game by Matthias Muth.

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7. Jump and Break by Roger Bell_West.

8. The Break Game by Simon Green.

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Task 1: String Compression

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a string of alphabetic characters, $chars.

Write a script to compress the string with run-length encoding, as shown in the examples.

A compressed unit can be either a single character or a count followed by a character.

BONUS: Write a decompression function.

Example 1

Input: $chars = "abbc"
Output: "a2bc"

Example 2

Input: $chars = "aaabccc"
Output: "3ab3c"

Example 3

Input: $chars = "abcc"
Output: "ab2c"

Task 2: Matchstick Square

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given an array of integers, @ints.

Write a script to find if it is possible to make one square using the sticks as in the given array @ints where $ints[ì] is the length of ith stick.

Example 1

Input: @ints = (1, 2, 2, 2, 1)
Output: true

Top: $ints[1] = 2
Bottom: $ints[2] = 2
Left: $ints[3] = 2
Right: $ints[0] and $ints[4] = 2

Example 2

Input: @ints = (2, 2, 2, 4)
Output: false

Example 3

Input: @ints = (2, 2, 2, 2, 4)
Output: false

Example 4

Input: @ints = (3, 4, 1, 4, 3, 1)
Output: true

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 24th November 2024.