RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 195

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. Bruce Gray

2. Jaldhar H. Vyas

3. Laurent Rosenfeld

4. Roger Bell_West

5. Stephen G. Lynn


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 10005 (63%)

2. Raku: 5774 (37%)

3. Blog: 3145


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 112. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 64

2. Raku: 29

3. Blog: 19


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 (1089)

Bash (1), JavaScript (96), Kotlin (101), Lua (92), Postscript (132), Python (234), Ruby (222), Rust (211).

3. Paulo Custodio (755)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (48), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (101), C++ (61), D (14), Forth (46), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (362).

4. Stuart Little (436)

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

5. Ulrich Rieke (400)

Awk (1), C (2), C++ (163), Haskell (192), Java (9), Lisp (7), Rust (26).

6. 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).

7. Lubos Kolouch (327)

Bash (1), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (11), JavaScript (1), PHP (7), Python (303), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

8. AhmetEmre (266)

BQN (265), Javascript (1).

9. Ali Moradi (257)

Ada (12), C (22), C++ (33), D (27), Go (2), Haskell (2), Lua (38), Modula 3 (20), Nelua (10), Nim (20), Oberon (17), Pascal (34), Python (18), Ruby (2).

10. Tyler Wardhaugh (224)

Clojure (164), Fennel (8), Lua (36), Python (16).

11. Adam Russell (158)

C++ (26), Fortran (3), Java (16), Nuweb (3), Prolog (110).

12. Eric Cheung (152)

Excel VBA (63), Python (89).

13. Robert DiCicco (135)

BASIC (2), Bash (1), Go (2), Julia (49), Lua (1), Python (10), Ruby (58), Tcl (12).

14. PokGoPun (128)

Dart (24), Go (104).

15. David Ferrone (116)

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

16. Archar Gelod (104)

Nim (104).

17. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (103)

Java (27), Python (35), Swift (41).

18. Luca Ferrari (93)

PostgreSQL (93).

19. Conor Hoekstra (88)

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

20. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

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

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. Simon Green (72)

Python (72).

24. Mohammad Meraj Zia (70)

Java (62), Kotlin (8).

25. Duncan C. White (65)

C (56), Pascal (6), Postscript (3).

26. Stephen G Lynn (46)

Julia (46).

27. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

28. Walt Mankowski (43)

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

29. E. Alvarez (35)

Go (15), Python (20).

30. 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).

31. Alexander Pankoff (21)

Haskell (21).

32. Cristina Heredia (21)

Python (21).

33. Ian Goodnight (21)

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

34. Shawn Wagner (21)

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

35. User Person (21)

Python (21).

36. Pete Houston (20)

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

37. Bruce Gray (18)

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

38. Dave Jacoby (18)

HTML (1), Node.js (14), Python (1), Rust (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. Vamsi Meenavilli (13)

Java (1), Python (12).

43. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

44. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

45. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

46. James Smith (11)

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

47. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

48. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

49. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

50. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

51. Jan Krnavek (8)

Julia (7), Scala (1).

52. Lance Wicks (8)

Elm (5), Go (3).

53. Leo Manfredi (8)

Bash (2), Python (6).

54. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

55. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

56. Andrew Grangaard (6)

Python (4), Rust (2).

57. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

58. Michael DiCicco (6)

Java (3), Python (3).

59. W. Luis Mochan (6)

Emacs Lisp (4), Julia (2).

60. izem (6)

Python (6).

61. Arne Sommer (5)

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

62. Bartosz Jarzyna (4)

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

63. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

64. Julien Fiegehenn (4)

TypeScript (4).

65. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

66. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

67. Kueppo Wesley (4)

Node.js (4).

68. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

69. Philip Hood (4)

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

70. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

71. Andinus (3)

C (3).

72. E. Choroba (3)

C (1), Erlang (2).

73. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

74. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

75. Joao Felipe (3)

APL (2), Python (1).

76. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

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

77. Rage311 (3)

Rust (3).

78. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

79. Humberto Massa (2)

C++ (2).

80. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (2).

81. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

82. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

83. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

84. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

85. Daniel Aberger (1)

Go (1).

86. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

87. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

88. Gurunandan Bhat (1)

Go (1).

89. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

90. Jorg Sommrey (1)

Maxima (1).

91. Maxim Kolodyazhny (1)

Elixir (1).

92. Roman Kotelnikov (1)

J (1).

93. Stephen G. Lynn (1)

Julia (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (1591), Haskell (520), Ruby (439), Lua (423), C (378), C++ (311), Rust (305), BQN (286), Go (236), Java (220), JavaScript (202), Node.js (196), Awk (187), Clojure (164), Julia (158), Postscript (151), Nim (138), Kotlin (130), Bash (126), APL (124), Pascal (123), Prolog (111), PostgreSQL (93), Tcl (89), Bc (84), R (74), BASIC (72), Scala (68), Forth (64), Excel VBA (63), D (61), Scheme (58), Lisp (41), Swift (41), Dart (40), PHP (39), Befunge-93 (35), Ada (33), Fortran (33), OCaml (25), SQL (23), Erlang (21), Modula 3 (20), Ring (20), C Shell (19), COBOL (18), M4 (18), Oberon (17), Rexx (17), Sed (16), Elm (15), MMIX (14), Nelua (10), Smalltalk (9), Fennel (8), J (8), 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), 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), Maxima (1), Mumps (1), Ook (1), SVG (1), VBA (1), Visual BASIC (1), XSLT (1).

CENTURION CLUB


Laurent Rosenfeld (1960), Jaldhar H. Vyas (1800), Roger Bell_West (1702), Arne Sommer (1468), Luca Ferrari (1324), Colin Crain (1284), Flavio Poletti (1272), Athanasius (1200), Ulrich Rieke (1046), Adam Russell (1018), Dave Jacoby (906), E. Choroba (872), Paulo Custodio (780), Lubos Kolouch (768), James Smith (728), Jorg Sommrey (724), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (716), Duncan C. White (710), Stuart Little (644), W. Luis Mochan (634), Cheok-Yin Fung (630), Simon Green (584), Mark Anderson (582), Abigail (574), Simon Proctor (520), Javier Luque (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Niels van Dijke (426), Jan Krnavek (424), Feng Chang (414), Ryan Thompson (390), Pete Houston (360), Wanderdoc (358), Peter Campbell Smith (352), Bruce Gray (326), Robert DiCicco (300), Joelle Maslak (274), Stephen G. Lynn (272), Andrezgz (252), Matthew Neleigh (238), Yet Ebreo (222), Alexander Pankoff (220), Steven Wilson (210), Bob Lied (202), Markus Holzer (198), Walt Mankowski (196), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Robert Ransbottom (184), Andrew Shitov (182), Kevin Colyer (176), Aaron Smith (174), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Mark Senn (156), Marton Polgar (148), Dave Cross (140), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Ali Moradi (134), Andinus (132), Cristina Heredia (126), 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]


Carlos Oliveira

Carlos Oliveira

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Cheok-Yin Fung

Cheok-Yin Fung

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Colin Crain

Colin Crain

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


Daniel Pfeiffer

Daniel Pfeiffer

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


Dave Jacoby

Dave Jacoby

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


David Ferrone

David Ferrone

[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]


Niels van Dijke

Niels van Dijke

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Olivier Delouya

Olivier Delouya

[PERL #1]


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]


Pip Stuart

Pip Stuart

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Robbie Hatley

Robbie Hatley

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Simon Green

Simon Green

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Solathian

Solathian

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Thomas Kohler

Thomas Kohler

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

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


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

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


Feng Chang

Feng Chang

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #2]


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]


Marton Polgar

Marton Polgar

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Robert Ransbottom

Robert Ransbottom

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Ali Moradi

Ali Moradi

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


Athanasius

Athanasius

[PERL #2] [RAKU #2]


Bruce Gray

Bruce Gray

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


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]


Robert DiCicco

Robert DiCicco

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


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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