The Weekly Challenge

HEADLINES

Welcome to the Week #315 of The Weekly Challenge.

Let’s all welcome, Ashwin Shenoy, from India to Team PWC. Thanks Ashwin for your first contributions in Dart and Python.

Thank you, E. Choroba, for getting back to me with PayPal details. I am glad the payment is now done. It has been waiting since November 2024. I am now waiting for one more member, Laurent Rosenfeld, to please share your details as well.

Ramadan is over now. Hopefully I’ll have more energy and time to put in.

The weather in England is getting better for the last few days. I can’t wait for the summer. I have had enough of winter.

I have taken a day off work today, so that I can spend some quality time with my family and celebrate the Idd festival.

I wish Idd Mubarak to all team members who celebrate the festival.

You all have a wonderful Monday to start the week.

Please continue hacking and sharing.

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


`Week`	`Perl`	`Raku`	`Blog`
`310`	44	19	13
`311`	42	21	16
`312`	46	21	26
`313`	51	19	13
`314`	42	17	13

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


`Week`	`Guests`	`Contributions`	`Languages`
`310`	11	44	16
`311`	11	46	17
`312`	13	56	20
`313`	11	49	18
`314`	12	50	18

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     (3285)
 2. Rust       (872)
 3. Ruby       (783)
 4. Haskell    (761)
 5. Lua        (700)
 6. C++        (601)
 7. C          (590)
 8. JavaScript (546)
 9. Go         (471)
10. BQN        (426)

Blogs with Creative Title

1. Equally Sorted by Adam Russell.

2. Sort of Equal by Arne Sommer.

3. Monotonous Prefixes by Jorg Sommrey.

4. Count Any Zipped Column by Matthias Muth.

5. Even more strings by Peter Campbell Smith.

6. Stringy Column by Roger Bell_West.

7. Sorted equally by Simon Green.

GitHub Repository Stats

1. Commits: 42,902 (`+80`)

2. Pull Requests: 11,782 (`+31`)

3. Contributors: 258 (`+1`)

4. Fork: 327

5. Stars: 189 (`+1`)

With start of Week #268, we have a new sponsor Lance Wicks until the end of year 2025. Having said we are looking for more sponsors so that we can go back to weekly winner. If anyone interested please get in touch with us at perlweeklychallenge@yahoo.com. Thanks for your support in advance.

RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 314 by Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

If you missed any past reviews then please check out the collection.

RAKU REVIEW

If you missed any past reviews then please check out the collection.

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

Ashwin Shenoy, an expert Python/Dart hacker from India joined the Team PWC.

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 #314.

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

Task 1: Find Words

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a list of words and a character.

Write a script to return the index of word in the list where you find the given character.

Example 1

Input: @list = ("the", "weekly", "challenge")
       $char = "e"
Output: (0, 1, 2)

Example 2

Input: @list = ("perl", "raku", "python")
       $char = "p"
Output: (0, 2)

Example 3

Input: @list = ("abc", "def", "bbb", "bcd")
       $char = "b"
Output: (0, 2, 3)

Task 2: Find Third

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a sentence and two words.

Write a script to return all words in the given sentence that appear in sequence to the given two words.

Example 1

Input: $sentence = "Perl is a my favourite language but Python is my favourite too."
       $first = "my"
       $second = "favourite"
Output: ("language", "too")

Example 2

Input: $sentence = "Barbie is a beautiful doll also also a beautiful princess."
       $first = "a"
       $second = "beautiful"
Output: ("doll", "princess")

Example 3

Input: $sentence = "we will we will rock you rock you.",
       $first = "we"
       $second = "will"
Output: ("we", "rock")

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 6th April 2025.