RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 175

Wednesday, Jan 7, 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. Roger Bell_West

5. Stephen G. Lynn


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 8838 (63%)

2. Raku: 5124 (37%)

3. Blog: 2775


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 115. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 58

2. Raku: 34

3. Blog: 23


GUESTS


1. Abigail (1540)

Awk (122), BASIC (22), Bash (110), Bc (58), Befunge-93 (34), Brainfuck (1), C (124), C Shell (19), COBOL (18), Chef (1), Erlang (19), Forth (18), Fortran (20), Go (66), Java (63), Lua (110), M4 (18), MMIX (14), Mumps (1), Node.js (129), OCaml (17), Ook (1), PHP (17), Pascal (66), Postscript (16), Python (114), R (61), Rexx (17), Ruby (108), SQL (23), Scheme (58), Sed (15), Tcl (60).

2. Roger Bell_West (832)

Bash (1), JavaScript (59), Kotlin (64), Lua (58), Postscript (95), Python (197), Ruby (185), Rust (173).

3. Paulo Custodio (719)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (44), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (93), C++ (57), D (14), Forth (42), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (346).

4. Stuart Little (436)

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

5. Laurent Rosenfeld (312)

Awk (16), Bash (2), Bc (8), Bourne Shell (1), C (17), C++ (1), D (14), Dart (7), Dc (2), Gembase (3), Go (13), IO (1), Java (6), JavaScript (5), Julia (28), Kotlin (13), Lua (11), Nim (10), Pascal (7), Python (41), R (1), Ring (14), Ruby (23), Rust (14), Scala (46), Sed (1), Tcl (5), Visual BASIC (1), Zig (1).

6. Ulrich Rieke (301)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (132), Haskell (156), Java (3), Lisp (7).

7. Lubos Kolouch (271)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (11), JavaScript (1), PHP (7), Python (247), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

8. AhmetEmre (234)

BQN (234).

9. Tyler Wardhaugh (190)

Clojure (140), Lua (36), Python (14).

10. Adam Russell (132)

C++ (24), Fortran (1), Java (14), Nuweb (3), Prolog (90).

11. David Ferrone (116)

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

12. Eric Cheung (112)

Excel VBA (63), Python (49).

13. PokGoPun (112)

Dart (16), Go (96).

14. Ali Moradi (110)

Ada (6), C (10), C++ (16), D (12), Go (2), Haskell (2), Lua (20), Modula 3 (6), Nelua (2), Nim (4), Oberon (6), Pascal (18), Python (4), Ruby (2).

15. Archar Gelod (104)

Nim (104).

16. Conor Hoekstra (86)

APL (52), BQN (20), C++ (2), Haskell (5), J (7).

17. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

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

18. Richard Park (73)

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

19. Cheok-Yin Fung (71)

Awk (3), Bash (6), Befunge-93 (1), C++ (1), Dart (4), Java (15), JavaScript (1), Julia (13), Lisp (11), Node.js (3), Python (4), Smalltalk (9).

20. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (66)

Java (15), Python (21), Swift (30).

21. Luca Ferrari (63)

PostgreSQL (63).

22. Robert DiCicco (59)

Bash (1), Julia (20), Python (4), Ruby (28), Tcl (6).

23. Mohammad Meraj Zia (54)

Java (46), Kotlin (8).

24. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

25. Walt Mankowski (43)

C (8), C++ (4), Python (31).

26. Simon Green (42)

Python (42).

27. 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).

28. Duncan C. White (24)

C (19), Pascal (2), Postscript (3).

29. Cristina Heredia (21)

Python (21).

30. Ian Goodnight (21)

JavaScript (12), Python (3), Ruby (6).

31. Shawn Wagner (21)

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

32. User Person (21)

Python (21).

33. Pete Houston (20)

Awk (11), Bash (1), C (2), Fortran (1), Lua (3), Python (2).

34. Alexander Pankoff (19)

Haskell (19).

35. Dave Jacoby (18)

HTML (1), Node.js (14), Python (1), Rust (2).

36. Bruce Gray (16)

C (3), Dart (2), Go (2), Julia (2), Python (2), SVG (1), WebAssembly (2), YaBasic (2).

37. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

38. Stephen G Lynn (16)

Julia (16).

39. Lucas Ransan (14)

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

40. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

41. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

42. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

43. James Smith (11)

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

44. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

45. E. Alvarez (9)

Go (8), Python (1).

46. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

47. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

48. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

49. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

50. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

51. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

52. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

53. Steven Wilson (8)

Haskell (1), JavaScript (1), Python (5), Rust (1).

54. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

55. Michael DiCicco (6)

Java (3), Python (3).

56. Arne Sommer (5)

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

57. Jan Krnavek (5)

Julia (4), Scala (1).

58. Bartosz Jarzyna (4)

C (1), PHP (2), Pascal (1).

59. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

60. Julien Fiegehenn (4)

TypeScript (4).

61. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

62. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

63. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

64. Philip Hood (4)

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

65. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

66. Andinus (3)

C (3).

67. E. Choroba (3)

C (1), Erlang (2).

68. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

69. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

70. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

C++ (1), PHP (1), Python (1).

71. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

72. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

73. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (2).

74. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

75. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

76. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

77. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

78. Daniel Aberger (1)

Go (1).

79. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

80. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

81. Gurunandan Bhat (1)

Go (1).

82. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

83. Maxim Kolodyazhny (1)

Elixir (1).

84. Roman Kotelnikov (1)

J (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (1318), Haskell (482), Lua (365), Ruby (365), C (317), BQN (255), C++ (255), Rust (236), Go (216), Node.js (192), Awk (181), Java (179), JavaScript (159), Clojure (140), Bash (126), APL (120), Nim (120), Postscript (114), Pascal (101), Prolog (91), Kotlin (88), Julia (84), Bc (83), Tcl (82), R (74), BASIC (66), Excel VBA (63), PostgreSQL (63), Scala (62), Forth (60), Scheme (58), D (41), Lisp (41), PHP (39), Befunge-93 (35), Fortran (31), Dart (30), Swift (30), Ada (27), OCaml (25), SQL (23), Erlang (21), C Shell (19), COBOL (18), M4 (18), Rexx (17), Sed (16), Elm (15), MMIX (14), Ring (14), Smalltalk (9), J (8), Brainfuck (6), Modula 3 (6), Oberon (6), TypeScript (4), CESIL (3), Crystal (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), Nuweb (3), Zig (3), C3 (2), Coconut (2), Dc (2), HTML (2), Haxe (2), Idris (2), Miranda (2), Myrddin (2), Nelua (2), Nix (2), Odin (2), WebAssembly (2), Wolfram (2), YaBasic (2), Bourne Shell (1), C# (1), Chef (1), Elixir (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 (1772), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1600), Roger Bell_West (1504), Arne Sommer (1324), Colin Crain (1170), Luca Ferrari (1060), Athanasius (1056), Flavio Poletti (1046), Adam Russell (906), Ulrich Rieke (894), Dave Jacoby (848), E. Choroba (790), Paulo Custodio (700), Lubos Kolouch (678), Jorg Sommrey (648), Stuart Little (644), Duncan C. White (634), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (632), James Smith (610), Abigail (574), Cheok-Yin Fung (550), W. Luis Mochan (510), Mark Anderson (504), Simon Green (496), Simon Proctor (496), Javier Luque (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Ryan Thompson (390), Feng Chang (374), Niels van Dijke (368), Pete Houston (360), Jan Krnavek (358), Wanderdoc (358), Joelle Maslak (274), Andrezgz (252), Peter Campbell Smith (244), Bruce Gray (232), Yet Ebreo (222), Steven Wilson (202), Markus Holzer (198), Matthew Neleigh (194), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Walt Mankowski (188), Alexander Pankoff (184), Andrew Shitov (182), Robert DiCicco (180), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Mark Senn (156), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Cristina Heredia (126), Dave Cross (124), Bob Lied (120), Joan Mimosinnet (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Julio de Castro (116), Saif Ahmed (114), Andinus (112), Gustavo Chaves (112), Robert Ransbottom (108), Alicia Bielsa (106), Burkhard Nickels (106), 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


Adam Russell

Adam Russell

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


Bob Lied

Bob Lied

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Colin Crain

Colin Crain

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


Dave Cross

Dave Cross

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Dave Jacoby

Dave Jacoby

[PERL #1]


Duncan C. White

Duncan C. White

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


E. Choroba

E. Choroba

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Gurunandan Bhat

Gurunandan Bhat

[PERL #2]


James Smith

James Smith

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


Jorg Sommrey

Jorg Sommrey

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Kjetil Skotheim

Kjetil Skotheim

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Matthew Neleigh

Matthew Neleigh

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Paulo Custodio

Paulo Custodio

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Peter Campbell Smith

Peter Campbell Smith

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


Simon Green

Simon Green

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


Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson

[PERL #1]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

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


Walt Mankowski

Walt Mankowski

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

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


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Luca Ferrari

Luca Ferrari

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2] [BLOG #1] [BLOG #2] [BLOG #3] [BLOG #4] [BLOG #5] [BLOG #6]


Marton Polgar

Marton Polgar

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Robert Ransbottom

Robert Ransbottom

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Simon Proctor

Simon Proctor

[RAKU #1]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Ali Moradi

Ali Moradi

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


Athanasius

Athanasius

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


Bruce Gray

Bruce Gray

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


Cheok-Yin Fung

Cheok-Yin Fung

[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]


Robert DiCicco

Robert DiCicco

[PERL #1] [RAKU #1]


Roger Bell_West

Roger Bell_West

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


Stephen G. Lynn

Stephen G. Lynn

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


Ulrich Rieke

Ulrich Rieke

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


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