RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 343

Monday, Oct 20, 2025| 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. Packy Anderson

2. Roger Bell_West


Overall Contributions Stats:


1. Perl: 17697 (64%)

2. Raku: 9817 (36%)

3. Blog: 6343


CONTRIBUTION STATS


The total contributions in the week is 76. Well done Team PWC. I would also like to thank Raku contributors for catching up.

1. Perl: 44

2. Raku: 19

3. Blog: 13


GUESTS


1. Roger Bell_West (3410)

Bash (1), Crystal (138), JavaScript (369), Kotlin (374), Lua (364), Postscript (412), Python (509), Ruby (497), Rust (502), Scala (202), Typst (42).

2. 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).

3. Ulrich Rieke (1199)

Awk (3), C (2), C++ (420), Haskell (458), Java (9), Julia (1), Lisp (7), Python (4), Ruby (1), Rust (294).

4. Paulo Custodio (925)

Ada (21), Awk (28), BASIC (76), Bc (17), Brainfuck (5), C (141), C++ (101), D (14), Forth (80), Fortran (8), Lua (38), Pascal (6), Python (390).

5. Ali Moradi (909)

APL (1), Ada (14), C (57), C++ (67), D (62), Erlang (20), Gleam (2), Go (35), Haskell (14), Java (118), Lisp (20), Lua (98), Modula 3 (140), Nelua (12), Nim (24), OCaml (8), Oberon (47), Odin (4), Pascal (70), Python (42), Ruby (34), Rust (2), Scheme (6), Standard ML (6), Zig (6).

6. PokGoPun (593)

Dart (24), Go (336), Lua (4), Python (229).

7. Lubos Kolouch (525)

Bash (6), C++ (1), Go (1), Java (18), JavaScript (1), PHP (9), Python (487), Ruby (1), VBA (1).

8. Luca Ferrari (493)

Java (92), PostgreSQL (281), Python (120).

9. David Ferrone (474)

C (115), JavaScript (109), Python (110), R (19), Rust (121).

10. Eric Cheung (444)

Excel VBA (63), Python (381).

11. Stuart Little (436)

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

12. Laurent Rosenfeld (400)

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 (41), 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).

13. Robert DiCicco (350)

BASIC (2), Bash (1), Go (2), Julia (111), Lua (2), PowerShell (11), Python (71), Ruby (124), Rust (1), Tcl (25).

14. Simon Green (332)

Go (1), Python (331).

15. Packy Anderson (293)

Elixir (108), Java (8), Python (177).

16. AhmetEmre (282)

BQN (281), Javascript (1).

17. Conor Hoekstra (265)

APL (66), BQN (161), C++ (2), CUDA (2), Haskell (6), J (8), Kap (4), Python (3), Rust (1), Uiua (12).

18. Tyler Wardhaugh (262)

Clojure (202), Fennel (8), Lua (36), Python (16).

19. Adam Russell (251)

C++ (26), Fortran (3), Java (16), JavaScript (6), Nuweb (3), Prolog (189), Python (2), R (6).

20. Steven Wilson (155)

Haskell (1), JavaScript (13), Python (140), Rust (1).

21. BarrOff (145)

Ada (1), Awk (1), BQN (11), D (3), GP (2), Julia (83), Nim (36), Pascal (5), V (3).

22. Mariano Spadaccini (125)

Bash (1), Elixir (15), Go (38), Korn Shell (2), Octave (1), Python (45), R (1), Ruby (22).

23. Archar Gelod (124)

Nim (124).

24. Peter Meszaros (118)

Tcl (118).

25. Mohammad Sajid Anwar (107)

Java (27), Python (39), Swift (41).

26. Duncan C. White (103)

C (94), Pascal (6), Postscript (3).

27. Richard Park (97)

APL (92), BQN (1), JavaScript (2), Python (2).

28. Cheok-Yin Fung (88)

Awk (3), Bash (6), Befunge-93 (1), C (1), C++ (1), Dart (4), Java (16), JavaScript (1), Julia (13), Lisp (25), Node (1), Node.js (3), Python (4), Smalltalk (9).

29. Asher Harvey-Smith (87)

APL (22), BQN (17), Haskell (14), Hy (11), J (17), K (2), Nu (4).

30. Mohammad Meraj Zia (86)

Java (78), Kotlin (8).

31. Myoungjin Jeon (85)

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

32. Nelo Tovar (67)

Bash (67).

33. Stephen G Lynn (59)

Julia (46), Python (13).

34. HVukman (57)

F# (9), J (1), K (12), Lua (19), PicoLisp (10), Racket (4), Retro (2).

35. Thomas Kohler (54)

Python (54).

36. Andrew Schneider (48)

C (8), C++ (4), Erlang (2), Haskell (6), Julia (8), Prolog (4), Racket (6), Rust (10).

37. Walt Mankowski (47)

C (12), C++ (4), Python (31).

38. E. Alvarez (46)

Go (16), JavaScript (3), Python (21), Ruby (2), Rust (4).

39. Nuno Vieira (44)

JavaScript (44).

40. Andrew Shitov (40)

Bash (1), C (1), C# (1), C++ (11), D (1), Dart (1), Fortran (1), Go (2), HTML (1), Java (2), JavaScript (2), Julia (1), Kotlin (1), Lisp (1), Lua (1), PHP (1), Pascal (1), Python (5), Ruby (1), Rust (1), Scala (1), Typescript (1), XSLT (1).

41. Peter Pentchev (38)

Ada (2), Dart (2), Fish (2), Logo (2), Python (8), Rust (18), WebAssembly (4).

42. Dave Jacoby (35)

HTML (1), Node.js (14), Python (18), Rust (2).

43. Bruce Gray (34)

C (3), Dart (2), F# (6), Go (2), Java (2), JavaScript (2), Julia (2), Python (4), Rust (2), SVG (1), Scala (2), WebAssembly (2), YaBasic (2), Zig (2).

44. Marton Polgar (34)

Groovy (4), PHP (10), Prolog (20).

45. Magnus Markling (28)

Uiua (28).

46. Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (28)

Go (8), Python (20).

47. Shawn Wagner (27)

Java (2), OCaml (8), Prolog (2), Racket (4), Tcl (11).

48. Benjamin Andre (26)

Rust (26).

49. Ian Goodnight (25)

JavaScript (12), Python (5), Ruby (6), TypeScript (2).

50. Andreas Voegele (22)

Kotlin (22).

51. Jan Krnavek (22)

Elixir (6), Julia (15), Scala (1).

52. Alexander Pankoff (21)

Haskell (21).

53. Cristina Heredia (21)

Python (21).

54. User Person (21)

Python (21).

55. Pete Houston (20)

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

56. Orestis Zekai (16)

Python (16).

57. Vamsi Meenavilli (15)

Java (1), Python (14).

58. Lucas Ransan (14)

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

59. Raghu R (14)

BQN (4), Factor (4), Prolog (6).

60. Simon Dueck (14)

F# (14).

61. Lance Wicks (13)

Elm (5), Go (4), Python (1), Roc (3).

62. Leo Manfredi (13)

Bash (2), Python (11).

63. Colin Crain (12)

Python (12).

64. Frank Oosterhuis (12)

Scala (12).

65. Kjetil Skotheim (12)

Scala (12).

66. Tymoteusz Moryto (12)

Uiua (12).

67. Wanderdoc (12)

R (12).

68. James Smith (11)

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

69. Jonas Berlin (11)

Rust (11).

70. E. Choroba (10)

C (1), C++ (2), Erlang (3), Python (4).

71. Mustafa Aydin (10)

C++ (10).

72. Tim King (10)

C# (9), Python (1).

73. Kang-min Liu (9)

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

74. Andre Ploger (8)

Go (8).

75. Andrew Grangaard (8)

Python (6), Rust (2).

76. Arne Sommer (8)

Bash (2), Node.js (1), PHP (1), Python (1), Ruby (2), SQL (1).

77. Ashwin Shenoy (8)

Dart (4), Python (4).

78. Aviral Goel (8)

Haskell (8).

79. Burkhard Nickels (8)

Python (8).

80. Ian Rifkin (8)

Python (8).

81. Joao Felipe (8)

APL (4), Python (2), Uiua (2).

82. Sangeet Kar (8)

Python (8).

83. Shawak (8)

Ruby (8).

84. Vinod Kumar K (8)

Python (8).

85. Yves Orton (8)

C (2), JavaScript (4), Rust (2).

86. Alex Wilson (6)

Uiua (6).

87. Henry Wong (6)

PHP (6).

88. Kai Burgdorf (6)

JavaScript (6).

89. Michael DiCicco (6)

Java (3), Python (3).

90. Robert McIntosh (6)

Python (6).

91. W. Luis Mochan (6)

Emacs Lisp (4), Julia (2).

92. izem (6)

Python (6).

93. Rage311 (5)

Haskell (2), Rust (3).

94. Augie De Blieck Jr. (4)

Elixir (2), JavaScript (1), Python (1).

95. Bartosz Jarzyna (4)

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

96. Ben Davies (4)

Idris (2), Scala (2).

97. Julien Fiegehenn (4)

TypeScript (4).

98. Karishma Rajput (4)

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

99. Kivanc Yazan (4)

Python (4).

100. Kueppo Wesley (4)

Node.js (4).

101. Macy TY (4)

JavaScript (4).

102. Mohammad Foda (4)

Haxe (2), Nim (2).

103. Philip Hood (4)

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

104. Yet Ebreo (4)

Python (2), Ruby (2).

105. Andinus (3)

C (3).

106. Gabor Szabo (3)

Crystal (3).

107. Guillermo Ramos (3)

Go (3).

108. Jorg Sommrey (3)

Maxima (1), Octave (2).

109. Mohammad Khalid Anwar (3)

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

110. Ryan Thompson (3)

C (1), Python (2).

111. Carlos Oliveira (2)

C (2).

112. Daniel Mita (2)

Go (1), JavaScript (1).

113. Dorian ‘vxern’ Oszczeda (2)

Uiua (2).

114. Humberto Massa (2)

C++ (2).

115. Joelle Maslak (2)

Go (2).

116. Kaushik Tunuguntla (2)

Python (2).

117. Mariano Ortega (2)

Java (2).

118. Mark Anderson (2)

PowerShell (2).

119. Mark Senn (2)

Wolfram (2).

120. Richard Loveland (2)

K (2).

121. Ruth Holloway (2)

COBOL (2).

122. Tejas (2)

C++ (2).

123. mauke (2)

Haskell (2).

124. Aaryan Rastogi (1)

JavaScript (1).

125. Andrea Piseri (1)

BQN (1).

126. Avery Adams (1)

Python (1).

127. Bob Lied (1)

C (1).

128. Chazzka (1)

Coconut (1).

129. Christian Jaeger (1)

Haskell (1).

130. Daniel Aberger (1)

Go (1).

131. Darren Bottin (1)

Prolog (1).

132. David Schwartz (1)

Python (1).

133. Gurunandan Bhat (1)

Go (1).

134. Jaldhar H. Vyas (1)

C++ (1).

135. Maxim Kolodyazhny (1)

Elixir (1).

136. Robbie Hatley (1)

C (1).

137. Roman Kotelnikov (1)

J (1).

138. Stephen G. Lynn (1)

Julia (1).

LANGUAGES


Python (3673), Rust (1020), Ruby (838), Haskell (823), Lua (779), C++ (659), C (596), JavaScript (594), Go (561), BQN (476), Java (466), Postscript (431), Kotlin (425), Julia (324), Scala (284), PostgreSQL (281), Prolog (222), Tcl (220), Clojure (202), Bash (200), Nim (198), Node.js (196), Awk (190), APL (185), Pascal (164), Crystal (141), Modula 3 (140), Elixir (132), BASIC (100), R (100), D (99), Forth (98), Bc (84), Lisp (75), Scheme (64), Excel VBA (63), Uiua (62), PHP (51), Oberon (47), Dart (46), Erlang (44), Typst (42), Swift (41), Ada (38), Befunge-93 (35), Fortran (33), OCaml (33), F# (29), J (27), SQL (24), COBOL (20), Ring (20), C Shell (19), M4 (18), Rexx (17), K (16), Sed (16), Elm (15), MMIX (14), Racket (14), PowerShell (13), Nelua (12), Hy (11), Zig (11), C# (10), PicoLisp (10), Smalltalk (9), Fennel (8), Brainfuck (6), Odin (6), Standard ML (6), TypeScript (6), WebAssembly (6), Coconut (4), Emacs Lisp (4), Factor (4), Groovy (4), Kap (4), Nu (4), CESIL (3), Fish (3), Gembase (3), Janet (3), Logo (3), Nuweb (3), Octave (3), Roc (3), V (3), C3 (2), CUDA (2), Dc (2), GP (2), Gleam (2), HTML (2), Haxe (2), Idris (2), Korn Shell (2), Miranda (2), Myrddin (2), Nix (2), Retro (2), Wolfram (2), YaBasic (2), Bourne Shell (1), Chef (1), GNAT (1), IO (1), Javascript (1), Maxima (1), Mumps (1), Node (1), Ook (1), SVG (1), Typescript (1), VBA (1), Visual BASIC (1), XSLT (1).

CENTURION CLUB


Luca Ferrari (3374), Jaldhar H. Vyas (3170), Roger Bell_West (3136), Laurent Rosenfeld (2906), Arne Sommer (2356), Athanasius (2250), Ulrich Rieke (2112), Flavio Poletti (1716), Jorg Sommrey (1522), W. Luis Mochan (1516), Dave Jacoby (1500), E. Choroba (1464), Adam Russell (1446), Colin Crain (1336), Lubos Kolouch (1332), Simon Green (1300), Peter Campbell Smith (1222), Paulo Custodio (1188), Mark Anderson (1150), Thomas Kohler (1138), Feng Chang (994), Ali Moradi (960), Jan Krnavek (954), Packy Anderson (952), Cheok-Yin Fung (892), James Smith (882), Bob Lied (880), Robbie Hatley (868), Niels van Dijke (852), Duncan C. White (794), Mohammad Sajid Anwar (732), Robert Ransbottom (708), Wanderdoc (708), Matthias Muth (702), David Ferrone (692), Bruce Gray (674), Stuart Little (644), Simon Proctor (628), Matthew Neleigh (614), Peter Meszaros (576), Abigail (574), Robert DiCicco (574), BarrOff (482), Stephen G. Lynn (478), Javier Luque (460), Ryan Thompson (460), Ruben Westerberg (452), Kjetil Skotheim (368), Pete Houston (360), Andrew Shitov (338), Joelle Maslak (314), Steven Wilson (284), Andrezgz (264), Yet Ebreo (222), Alexander Pankoff (220), Walt Mankowski (210), Markus Holzer (198), Solathian (198), Myoungjin Jeon (192), Noud Aldenhoven (188), Marton Polgar (182), Avery Adams (176), Kevin Colyer (176), Nelo Tovar (176), Aaron Smith (174), Andreas Mahnke (172), Duane Powell (164), Kian-Meng Ang (162), Reinier Maliepaard (162), Mark Senn (156), Mariano Spadaccini (156), Humberto Massa (148), Dave Cross (140), Shahed Nooshmand (140), Andinus (132), Pip Stuart (132), Cristina Heredia (126), Joan Mimosinnet (120), Kang-min Liu (118), Santiago Leyva (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


Ali Moradi

Ali Moradi

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


Andreas Mahnke

Andreas Mahnke

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Bob Lied

Bob Lied

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


David Ferrone

David Ferrone

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


E. Choroba

E. Choroba

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Jorg Sommrey

Jorg Sommrey

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


Lubos Kolouch

Lubos Kolouch

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Matthew Neleigh

Matthew Neleigh

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


Matthias Muth

Matthias Muth

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


Niels van Dijke

Niels van Dijke

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


Ryan Thompson

Ryan Thompson

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


Thomas Kohler

Thomas Kohler

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


Vinod Kumar K

Vinod Kumar K

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


W. Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan

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


Wanderdoc

Wanderdoc

[PERL #1] [PERL #2]


RAKU SOLUTIONS


Andrew Shitov

Andrew Shitov

[RAKU #1]


Arne Sommer

Arne Sommer

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


Asher Harvey-Smith

Asher Harvey-Smith

[RAKU #1]


BarrOff

BarrOff

[RAKU #1]


Feng Chang

Feng Chang

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Jan Krnavek

Jan Krnavek

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

[RAKU #1] [RAKU #2]


PERL & RAKU SOLUTIONS


Athanasius

Athanasius

[PERL #1] [RAKU #1]


Mohammad Sajid Anwar

Mohammad Sajid Anwar

[PERL #1] [RAKU #1]


Packy Anderson

Packy Anderson

[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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