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Mohammad S Anwar
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The Weekly Challenge - 196

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HEADLINES

Welcome to the Week #196 of The Weekly Challenge.

Welcome 2 new members to the Team PWC, Pip Stuart and Carlos Oliveira. They are both experienced Perl hacker.

Advent Calendar 2022 is going on with full swing, thanks to the contributions by the members of Team PWC.
Day Article Author
   1     Are Abecedarians from Abecedaria?     Adam Russell  
   2     Binary String / Odd String     James Smith  
   3     Counting Cute     Colin Crain  
   4     Four is Magic     Alexander Pankoff  
   5     Farey, Moebius     Arne Sommer  
   6     Our Primes     Dave Jacoby  
   7     Three means and big bases     Simon Green  
   8     Pernicious / Weird Number     Cheok-Yin Fung  
   9     Fortune and Pisani     Luca Ferrari  
   10     Padawan Missing     Bruce Gray  
   11     Factorions     Flavio Poletti  
   12     Triangle Sum Path / Rectangle Area     W. Luis Mochan  
   13     Capital test and ambiguous encoding     Peter Campbell Smith  
   14     Days Together / Mask Code     Andinus  
   15     Array Degree     E. Choroba  
   16     Divisible Pairs / Total Zero     Jaldhar H. Vyas  
   17     Digital Clock and Frequency Equalizer     Laurent Rosenfeld  
   18     Odd Abundant Numbers     Ryan Thompson  
   19     Zip List / Unicode makeover     Stephen G. Lynn  

Another week another achievement. Thank you Team PWC for the support and encouragement.
  Week      Perl       Raku       Blog   
   184       55       31       17   
   185       59       35       19   
   186       56       33       20   
   187       51       34       20   
   188       63       36       16   
   189       60       35       18   
   190       53       32       23   
   191       54       38       21   
   192       59       41       23   
   193       55       31       22   
   194       58       32       19   
   195       54       29       19   

Last week, we had 35 regular contributors and 9 guest contributors. Thank you everyone for the support and encouragement.

Today, we are giving away Coupon #19 to Athanasius for the book, Learning Perl Exercises by brian d foy. I will share the details with you in a separate email.

Past Winners

  S. No.   Name S. No. Name
1. Cheok-Yin Fung 2. W. Luis Mochan
3. Robert DiCicco 4. Kueppo Wesley
5. Solathian 6. Dario Mazzeo
7.   Peter Campbell Smith   8. Kjetil Skotheim
9. Neils van Dijke 10.   Laurent Rosenfeld  
11. Duncan C. White 12. Ali Moradi
13. Jorg Sommrey 14. James Smith
15. Alexander Pankoff 16. Simon Green
17. Robbie Hatley 18. Bob Lied
19. 20.
21. 22.
23. 24.
25. 26.
27. 28.
29. 30.
31. 32.
33. 34.
35. 36.
37. 38.
39. 40.
41. 42.
43. 44.
45. 46.
47. 48.
49. 50.

I would like to thank every guest contributors for making it special every week. Last week we received 51 guest contributions in 18 languages.

With so much going on in the recent weeks, I hardly find time to contribute my solutions. I will try my best in coming weeks to get back on track.

TOP 10 Guest Languages

Do you see your favourite language in the Top 10? If not then why not contribute regularly and make it to the top.

 1. Python  (1245)
 2. Haskell (520)
 3. Ruby    (436)
 4. Lua     (421)
 5. C       (304)
 6. C++     (304)
 7. Rust    (276)
 8. BQN     (267)
 9. Go      (233)
10. Java    (211)
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Blogs with Creative Title

1. Especially Frequent Even by Adam Russell.
2. Especially Even by Arne Sommer.
3. Special Speedy Frequency by Bruce Gray.
4. Well Ain’t That Special by Colin Crain.
5. Bags to the rescue! by Luca Ferrari.
6. Some numbers are special and others are frequent and even by Peter Campbell Smith.
7. Frequently Special by Roger Bell_West.

Repository Stats GitHub

1. Commits: 29,788 (+103)
2. Pull Requests:,269 (+38)
3. Contributors: 214 (+1)
4. Fork: 271 (+3)
5. Stars: 148

SPONSOR

Our solo sponsor Pete Sergeant has been a great support to keep us motivated. We are lucky that he agreed to continue the journey with us in the year 2022. I would like to personally thank Pete and his entire team for their generosity. It would be great if we could add few more to sponsor the prize money so that we could go back and declare weekly champions as we have done in the past. I hope and wish this will become possible in 2022. The amount doesn't have to be huge. However, it would be nice to show off bunch of supporters. If an organisation comes forward and supports us then that would be the ultimate achievement.

RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 195 by Mohammad S Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

If you missed any past reviews then please check out the collection.

RAKU REVIEW

If you missed any past reviews then please check out the collection.

CHART

Please take a look at the charts showing interesting data.
I would like to THANK every member of the team for their valuable suggestions. Please do share your experience with us.

NEW MEMBERS

Pip Stuart, an experienced Perl hacker from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA joined Team PWC.
Carlos Oliveira, an experienced Perl hacker joined Team PWC.

Please find out How to contribute?, if you have any doubts.
Please try the excellent tool EZPWC created by respected member Saif Ahmed of Team PWC.

GUESTS

Please check out the guest contributions for the Week #195.
Please find past solutions by respected guests. Please share your creative solutions in other languages.

Task 1: Pattern 132

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given a list of integers, @list.

Write a script to find out subsequence that respect Pattern 132. Return empty array if none found.

Pattern 132 in a sequence (a[i], a[j], a[k]) such that i < j < k and a[i] < a[k] < a[j].

Example 1 

Input:  @list = (3, 1, 4, 2)
Output: (1, 4, 2) respect the Pattern 132.
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Example 2 

Input: @list = (1, 2, 3, 4)
Output: () since no susbsequence can be found.
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Example 3 

Input: @list = (1, 3, 2, 4, 6, 5)
Output: (1, 3, 2) if more than one subsequence found then return the first.
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Example 4 

Input: @list = (1, 3, 4, 2)
Output: (1, 3, 2)
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Task 2: Range List

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given a sorted unique integer array, @array.

Write a script to find all possible Number Range i.e [x, y] represent range all integers from x and y (both inclusive).

Each subsequence of two or more contiguous integers

Example 1 

Input: @array = (1,3,4,5,7)
Output: [3,5]
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Example 2 

Input: @array = (1,2,3,6,7,9)
Output: [1,3], [6,7]
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Example 3 

Input: @array = (0,1,2,4,5,6,8,9)
Output: [0,2], [4,6], [8,9]
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Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 25th December 2022.

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