RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 187

Tuesday, Feb 17, 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: 9508 (63%)

2. Raku: 5500 (37%)

3. Blog: 2986


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 113. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 59

2. Raku: 34

3. Blog: 20


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 (977)

Bash (1), JavaScript (80), Kotlin (85), Lua (76), Postscript (116), Python (218), Ruby (206), Rust (195).

3. Paulo Custodio (739)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (44), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (97), C++ (57), D (14), Forth (42), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (362).

4. Stuart Little (436)

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

5. Laurent Rosenfeld (396)

Awk (22), Bash (2), Bc (9), Bourne Shell (1), C (21), C++ (1), Coconut (1), D (19), Dart (9), Dc (2), Gembase (3), Go (16), IO (1), Java (9), JavaScript (11), Julia (37), Kotlin (18), Lua (16), Nim (12), Pascal (9), Python (50), R (1), Ring (20), Ruby (30), Rust (15), Scala (52), Sed (1), Tcl (6), Visual BASIC (1), Zig (1).

6. Lubos Kolouch (352)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (11), JavaScript (1), PHP (7), Python (328), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

7. Ulrich Rieke (350)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (147), Haskell (176), Java (5), Lisp (7), Rust (12).

8. AhmetEmre (251)

BQN (250), Javascript (1).

9. Tyler Wardhaugh (216)

Clojure (156), Fennel (8), Lua (36), Python (16).

10. Adam Russell (146)

C++ (26), Fortran (3), Java (16), Nuweb (3), Prolog (98).

11. Ali Moradi (145)

Ada (8), C (10), C++ (21), D (17), Go (2), Haskell (2), Lua (26), Modula 3 (10), Nelua (2), Nim (8), Oberon (7), Pascal (24), Python (6), Ruby (2).

12. Eric Cheung (136)

Excel VBA (63), Python (73).

13. PokGoPun (128)

Dart (24), Go (104).

14. David Ferrone (116)

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

15. Archar Gelod (104)

Nim (104).

16. Robert DiCicco (97)

BASIC (2), Bash (1), Go (2), Julia (36), Lua (1), Python (4), Ruby (44), Tcl (7).

17. Conor Hoekstra (88)

APL (54), BQN (20), C++ (2), Haskell (5), J (7).

18. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (88)

Java (22), Python (30), Swift (36).

19. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

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

20. Luca Ferrari (81)

PostgreSQL (81).

21. Richard Park (73)

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

22. Cheok-Yin Fung (72)

Awk (3), Bash (6), Befunge-93 (1), C++ (1), Dart (4), Java (16), JavaScript (1), Julia (13), Lisp (11), Node.js (3), Python (4), Smalltalk (9).

23. Mohammad Meraj Zia (63)

Java (55), Kotlin (8).

24. Simon Green (56)

Python (56).

25. Duncan C. White (45)

C (40), Pascal (2), Postscript (3).

26. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

27. Walt Mankowski (43)

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

28. Stephen G Lynn (35)

Julia (35).

29. 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).

30. Cristina Heredia (21)

Python (21).

31. Ian Goodnight (21)

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

32. Shawn Wagner (21)

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

33. User Person (21)

Python (21).

34. Pete Houston (20)

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

35. Alexander Pankoff (19)

Haskell (19).

36. E. Alvarez (19)

Go (8), Python (11).

37. Dave Jacoby (18)

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

38. Bruce Gray (16)

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

39. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

40. Steven Wilson (15)

Haskell (1), JavaScript (1), Python (12), Rust (1).

41. Lucas Ransan (14)

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

42. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

43. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

44. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

45. James Smith (11)

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

46. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

47. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

48. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

49. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

50. Jan Krnavek (8)

Julia (7), Scala (1).

51. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

52. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

53. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

54. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

55. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

56. Michael DiCicco (6)

Java (3), Python (3).

57. W. Luis Mochan (6)

Emacs Lisp (4), Julia (2).

58. Arne Sommer (5)

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

59. Bartosz Jarzyna (4)

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

60. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

61. Julien Fiegehenn (4)

TypeScript (4).

62. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

63. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

64. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

65. Philip Hood (4)

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

66. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

67. izem (4)

Python (4).

68. Andinus (3)

C (3).

69. E. Choroba (3)

C (1), Erlang (2).

70. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

71. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

72. Joao Felipe (3)

APL (2), Python (1).

73. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

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

74. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

75. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

76. Humberto Massa (2)

C++ (2).

77. Kueppo Wesley (2)

Node.js (2).

78. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (2).

79. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

80. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

81. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

82. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

83. Daniel Aberger (1)

Go (1).

84. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

85. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

86. Gurunandan Bhat (1)

Go (1).

87. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

88. Maxim Kolodyazhny (1)

Elixir (1).

89. Roman Kotelnikov (1)

J (1).

90. Stephen G. Lynn (1)

Julia (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (1518), Haskell (502), Ruby (409), Lua (395), C (346), C++ (279), BQN (271), Rust (271), Go (229), Java (203), Node.js (194), Awk (187), JavaScript (186), Clojure (156), Postscript (135), Julia (134), Bash (126), Nim (126), APL (124), Kotlin (114), Pascal (109), Prolog (99), Bc (84), Tcl (84), PostgreSQL (81), R (74), BASIC (68), Scala (68), Excel VBA (63), Forth (60), Scheme (58), D (51), Lisp (41), Dart (40), PHP (39), Swift (36), Befunge-93 (35), Fortran (33), Ada (29), OCaml (25), SQL (23), Erlang (21), Ring (20), C Shell (19), COBOL (18), M4 (18), Rexx (17), Sed (16), Elm (15), MMIX (14), Modula 3 (10), Smalltalk (9), Fennel (8), J (8), Oberon (7), Brainfuck (6), Emacs Lisp (4), TypeScript (4), CESIL (3), Coconut (3), Crystal (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), Nuweb (3), Zig (3), C3 (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), Javascript (1), Logo (1), Mumps (1), Ook (1), SVG (1), VBA (1), Visual BASIC (1), XSLT (1).

CENTURION CLUB


Laurent Rosenfeld (1880), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1720), Roger Bell_West (1622), Arne Sommer (1420), Colin Crain (1238), Luca Ferrari (1212), Flavio Poletti (1188), Athanasius (1140), Ulrich Rieke (984), Adam Russell (958), Dave Jacoby (874), E. Choroba (838), Lubos Kolouch (748), Paulo Custodio (748), Jorg Sommrey (690), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (688), James Smith (680), Duncan C. White (678), Stuart Little (644), Cheok-Yin Fung (604), W. Luis Mochan (586), Abigail (574), Mark Anderson (552), Simon Green (538), Simon Proctor (510), Javier Luque (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Jan Krnavek (400), Niels van Dijke (398), Ryan Thompson (390), Feng Chang (382), Pete Houston (360), Wanderdoc (358), Peter Campbell Smith (304), Joelle Maslak (274), Bruce Gray (264), Andrezgz (252), Robert DiCicco (248), Matthew Neleigh (228), Yet Ebreo (222), Steven Wilson (210), Markus Holzer (198), Walt Mankowski (196), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Stephen G. Lynn (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Alexander Pankoff (184), Andrew Shitov (182), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Bob Lied (170), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Mark Senn (156), Robert Ransbottom (152), Dave Cross (140), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Andinus (128), Cristina Heredia (126), Marton Polgar (124), Joan Mimosinnet (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Julio de Castro (116), Saif Ahmed (114), Gustavo Chaves (112), 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]


Cheok-Yin Fung

Cheok-Yin Fung

[PERL #1]


Colin Crain

Colin Crain

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Dave Jacoby

Dave Jacoby

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Duncan C. White

Duncan C. White

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


E. Choroba

E. Choroba

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


James Smith

James Smith

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


Jorg Sommrey

Jorg Sommrey

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Matthew Neleigh

Matthew Neleigh

[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]


Peter Campbell Smith

Peter Campbell Smith

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


Peter Meszaros

Peter Meszaros

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Robbie Hatley

Robbie Hatley

[PERL #1]


Simon Green

Simon Green

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


Solathian

Solathian

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Tim Potapov

Tim Potapov

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

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


izem

izem

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Andinus

Andinus

[RAKU #1] [BLOG #1]


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

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


Bruce Gray

Bruce Gray

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Feng Chang

Feng Chang

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Humberto Massa

Humberto Massa

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #1]


Luca Ferrari

Luca Ferrari

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


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Robert Ransbottom

Robert Ransbottom

[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]


Robert DiCicco

Robert DiCicco

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


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 #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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