RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 141

Sunday, Jan 18, 2026| Tags: Perl, Raku

TABLE OF CONTENTS


  1. HEADLINES

  2. STAR CONTRIBUTORS

  3. CONTRIBUTION STATS

  4. GUESTS

  5. LANGUAGES

  6. CENTURION CLUB

  7. DAMIAN CONWAY’s CORNER

  8. ANDREW SHITOV’s CORNER

  9. PERL SOLUTIONS

10. RAKU SOLUTIONS

11. PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


HEADLINES


Thank you Team PWC for your continuous support and encouragement.


STAR CONTRIBUTORS


Following members shared solutions to both tasks in Perl and Raku as well as blogged about it.

1. Flavio Poletti

2. Jaldhar H. Vyas

3. Laurent Rosenfeld

4. Mohammad Sajid Anwar

5. Roger Bell_West


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 7129 (63%)

2. Raku: 4130 (37%)

3. Blog: 2097


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 102. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 54

2. Raku: 28

3. Blog: 20


GUESTS


1. Abigail (1070)

Awk (99), BASIC (10), Bash (86), Bc (39), Befunge-93 (23), Brainfuck (1), C (101), C Shell (8), COBOL (7), Chef (1), Erlang (8), Forth (7), Fortran (9), Go (46), Java (43), Lua (86), M4 (7), MMIX (3), Mumps (1), Node.js (105), OCaml (6), Ook (1), PHP (7), Pascal (46), Postscript (5), Python (90), R (40), Rexx (6), Ruby (84), SQL (11), Scheme (40), Sed (5), Tcl (39).

2. Paulo Custodio (654)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (44), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (92), C++ (57), D (14), Forth (42), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (282).

3. Stuart Little (436)

Haskell (256), Lua (88), Node.js (44), Python (48).

4. Roger Bell_West (383)

Bash (1), Postscript (31), Python (129), Ruby (117), Rust (105).

5. AhmetEmre (234)

BQN (234).

6. Lubos Kolouch (209)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (7), JavaScript (1), PHP (1), Python (195), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

7. Ulrich Rieke (197)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (83), Haskell (101), Java (3), Lisp (7).

8. Tyler Wardhaugh (168)

Clojure (118), Lua (36), Python (14).

9. Laurent Rosenfeld (149)

Awk (9), Bash (1), Bc (2), Bourne Shell (1), C (9), C++ (1), D (7), Dart (2), Gembase (3), Go (6), IO (1), Java (2), Julia (10), Kotlin (3), Lua (4), Nim (3), Pascal (4), Python (25), Ruby (9), Rust (7), Scala (36), Sed (1), Tcl (1), Visual BASIC (1), Zig (1).

10. David Ferrone (116)

C (29), JavaScript (29), Python (29), Rust (29).

11. Archar Gelod (104)

Nim (104).

12. Adam Russell (87)

C++ (23), Nuweb (3), Prolog (61).

13. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

Elm (10), Fish (1), Go (18), Haskell (34), Lisp (22).

14. Richard Park (73)

APL (68), BQN (1), JavaScript (2), Python (2).

15. Cheok-Yin Fung (50)

Awk (2), Bash (5), Befunge-93 (1), Java (12), JavaScript (1), Julia (6), Lisp (11), Node.js (1), Python (3), Smalltalk (8).

16. Mohammad Meraj Zia (49)

Java (41), Kotlin (8).

17. Conor Hoekstra (48)

APL (24), BQN (14), C++ (1), Haskell (4), J (5).

18. Eric Cheung (46)

Excel VBA (43), Python (3).

19. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

20. PokGoPun (40)

Dart (12), Go (28).

21. Walt Mankowski (36)

C (6), C++ (4), Python (26).

22. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (35)

Java (6), Python (7), Swift (22).

23. Andrew Shitov (34)

Bash (1), C (1), C# (1), C++ (10), D (1), Dart (1), Fortran (1), Go (1), HTML (1), Java (1), JavaScript (1), Julia (1), Kotlin (1), Lisp (1), Lua (1), PHP (1), Pascal (1), Python (4), Ruby (1), Rust (1), Scala (1), XSLT (1).

24. Shawn Wagner (21)

Java (2), OCaml (8), Tcl (11).

25. User Person (21)

Python (21).

26. Ali Moradi (20)

C (4), C++ (2), D (2), Go (2), Lua (2), Modula 3 (2), Oberon (2), Pascal (2), Ruby (2).

27. Cristina Heredia (19)

Python (19).

28. Pete Houston (18)

Awk (10), Bash (1), C (2), Fortran (1), Lua (2), Python (2).

29. Dave Jacoby (17)

HTML (1), Node.js (13), Python (1), Rust (2).

30. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

31. Lucas Ransan (14)

C3 (2), Coconut (2), Miranda (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Odin (2), Zig (2).

32. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

33. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

34. Luca Ferrari (12)

PostgreSQL (12).

35. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

36. James Smith (11)

C (1), CESIL (3), JavaScript (1), Logo (1), PHP (4), Python (1).

37. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

38. Ian Goodnight (10)

JavaScript (8), Ruby (2).

39. E. Alvarez (9)

Go (8), Python (1).

40. Kang-min Liu (9)

Janet (3), Kotlin (2), Python (2), Rust (2).

41. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

42. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

43. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

44. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

45. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

46. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

47. Alexander Pankoff (7)

Haskell (7).

48. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

49. Simon Green (6)

Python (6).

50. Steven Wilson (6)

Python (5), Rust (1).

51. Arne Sommer (5)

Bash (1), Node.js (1), PHP (1), Python (1), Ruby (1).

52. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

53. Karishma Rajput (4)

C (1), C++ (1), JavaScript (1), Node.js (1).

54. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

55. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

56. Philip Hood (4)

C (1), C++ (2), GNAT (1).

57. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

58. Andinus (3)

C (3).

59. Duncan C. White (3)

Postscript (3).

60. E. Choroba (3)

C (1), Erlang (2).

61. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

62. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

63. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

64. Bartosz Jarzyna (2)

PHP (2).

65. Bruce Gray (2)

C (1), SVG (1).

66. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

67. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

68. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

69. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

70. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

71. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

72. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

73. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

74. Jan Krnavek (1)

Scala (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (973), Haskell (411), Lua (257), C (255), BQN (249), Ruby (227), C++ (188), Node.js (165), Rust (161), Awk (149), Clojure (118), Go (117), Java (117), Nim (109), Bash (99), APL (92), JavaScript (90), Prolog (62), Pascal (59), Bc (58), BASIC (54), R (52), Scala (52), Tcl (51), Forth (49), Excel VBA (43), Lisp (41), Scheme (40), Postscript (39), Befunge-93 (24), D (24), PHP (22), Swift (22), Ada (21), Fortran (19), Julia (17), Dart (15), Elm (15), Kotlin (14), OCaml (14), PostgreSQL (12), SQL (11), Erlang (10), C Shell (8), Smalltalk (8), COBOL (7), M4 (7), Brainfuck (6), Rexx (6), Sed (6), J (5), CESIL (3), Crystal (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), MMIX (3), Nuweb (3), Zig (3), C3 (2), Coconut (2), HTML (2), Haxe (2), Idris (2), Miranda (2), Modula 3 (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Oberon (2), Odin (2), Bourne Shell (1), C# (1), Chef (1), Fish (1), GNAT (1), IO (1), Logo (1), Mumps (1), Ook (1), SVG (1), VBA (1), Visual BASIC (1), XSLT (1).

CENTURION CLUB


Laurent Rosenfeld (1432), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1280), Roger Bell_West (1164), Arne Sommer (1062), Colin Crain (912), Athanasius (796), Adam Russell (718), Dave Jacoby (658), Ulrich Rieke (658), E. Choroba (650), Stuart Little (644), Luca Ferrari (636), Flavio Poletti (634), Paulo Custodio (564), Lubos Kolouch (552), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (530), Jorg Sommrey (522), Duncan C. White (502), Abigail (490), Simon Proctor (472), Javier Luque (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Cheok-Yin Fung (438), James Smith (406), Simon Green (388), Mark Anderson (384), Wanderdoc (354), Feng Chang (314), W. Luis Mochan (306), Ryan Thompson (298), Pete Houston (292), Niels van Dijke (284), Joelle Maslak (274), Jan Krnavek (252), Andrezgz (238), Yet Ebreo (222), Markus Holzer (198), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Steven Wilson (188), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Andrew Shitov (174), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Walt Mankowski (162), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Cristina Heredia (122), Dave Cross (120), Joan Mimosinnet (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Julio de Castro (116), Gustavo Chaves (112), Saif Ahmed (110), Bob Lied (108), Alicia Bielsa (106), Burkhard Nickels (106), Andinus (104), Nuno Vieira (104).

DAMIAN CONWAY’s CORNER


Please checkout the masterpiece collection of blogs by Damian Conway solving the The Weekly Challenge.


ANDREW SHITOV’s CORNER


Please checkout the technical class of Andrew‘s Raku Knowledge. You can find all his contributions to the The Weekly Challenge on this nicely laid out page.


PERL SOLUTIONS


Abigail

Abigail

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1] [BLOG #2]


Adam Russell

Adam Russell

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Alexander Karelas

Alexander Karelas

[PERL #2]


Alexander Pankoff

Alexander Pankoff

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Colin Crain

Colin Crain

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Dave Jacoby

Dave Jacoby

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Duncan C. White

Duncan C. White

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


E. Choroba

E. Choroba

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Jake

Jake

[PERL #1]


James Smith

James Smith

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Jorg Sommrey

Jorg Sommrey

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Kaushik Tunuguntla

Kaushik Tunuguntla

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Niels van Dijke

Niels van Dijke

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Paul Fajman

Paul Fajman

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Paulo Custodio

Paulo Custodio

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Pete Houston

Pete Houston

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Peter Campbell Smith

Peter Campbell Smith

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


Robert DiCicco

Robert DiCicco

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Simon Green

Simon Green

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [BLOG #1]


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


David Santiago

David Santiago

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Feng Chang

Feng Chang

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Luca Ferrari

Luca Ferrari

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1] [BLOG #2] [BLOG #3] [BLOG #4]


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Simon Proctor

Simon Proctor

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Athanasius

Athanasius

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Flavio Poletti

Flavio Poletti

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1] [BLOG #2]


Jaldhar H. Vyas

Jaldhar H. Vyas

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Laurent Rosenfeld

Laurent Rosenfeld

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Mohammad Sajid Anwar

Mohammad Sajid Anwar

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Roger Bell_West

Roger Bell_West

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1]


Ulrich Rieke

Ulrich Rieke

[PERL #1] [PERL #2] [RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Last but not the least, I would like to request all members, please send us your photo, that you already use on some other web platform, to use in the weekly blog, if not already sent.


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