Bob Lied articles - 69 total
PWC 362 Echo Chamber
The musical accompaniment must obviously be Pink Floyd's Echoes. The Task You are given a...
PWC 360 Pertaining to a subtlety of sorting
It's been a while since I commented on a Weekly Challenge solution, but here we are at week 360. Such...
PWC 353 To each (array) his own
This week's challenges were early and on the easy side, which was appreciated as the holidays loom....
PWC 352 Five is the one-liest number
Task 1: Match String The Task You are given an array of strings. Write a script...
PWC 350 Good Substring / Shuffle Pairs
Musical Interlude The movie version of Wicked is in theaters right now, so I am reminded...
PWC 349 More complex than it has to be
PWC 349 Task 2: Meeting Point Musical Interlude We're going deep cut from the...
PWC 348 String Alike, Convert Time
PWC 348 Task 1: String Alike The Task You are given a string of even length....
PWC 345: I Went to the Mountains
I found the two tasks this week straight-forward and oddly specific, respectively. Music: the task...
PWC 344, Task 2: Pick Up the Pieces
Task 2: Array Formation The Task You are given two lists: @source and...
PWC 342 Max Score: All Your 0s and 1s Are Belong to Us
Task 2: Max Score Description You are given a string, $str, containing 0 and 1...
PWC 342 Balance: And a 1, and a 2
Task 1: Balance String Description You are given a string made up of lowercase...
PWC 339 Max Diff: Sorting for the win
This week's task turned out to be one of those that are easy to state and more challenging to do...
PWC 338 Maximal maximization of maximums
As I'm writing this, I'm watching a crew install a fence and once again thanking my high school...
PWC 335 Common Characters
Task 1: Common Characters You are given an array of words. Write a script to return all...
PWC 334 First We Do the Range Sum, Then We Take Manhattan
For your musical enjoyment, I recommend First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen, 1988). ...
PWC 333 Algebra review and much ado about nothing
Task 1: Straight Line You are given a list of co-ordinates. Write a script to find out...
PWC 331, 332 Odd last date letters, binary word list buddy
It's been a while for Perl Weekly Challenge posts. The last few have been pretty easy, so let's do a...
PWC 322 String Format
Task 1 String Format You are given a string and a positive integer. Write a script to...
PWC 321 Every Average Tells a Story, Don't It?
Monday morning at 3:30am, I woke up feeling like someone was watching me. My dog was sitting by the...
PWC 318 Task 2 Reverse Equals
PWC 318 Task 2 Reverse Equals Problem Description You are given two arrays of...
PWC 312 Time to be random
Weekly Challenge 312 is here. 312 is the telephone area code in and around Chicago. Once upon a time,...
PWC 311 Why do you build me up just to let me down?
Another Perl Weekly Challenge, number 311 in a series of, as far as I can tell, infinity. We're gonna...
PWC 310 Task 1 Arrays Intersection
The Task PWC 310 Task 1, Arrays Intersection asks us to implement set intersection from...
PWC 296 Matchstick Square
The Task Perl Weekly Challenge 296 Task 2 asks us to imagine if sticks of various lengths...
PWC 296 String Compression
Weekly Challenge 296, Task 1, asks us to implement a simple form of string compression. Run-length...
PWC 293 Similar Dominos Done Badly
Perl Weekly Challenge 293 gave us a problem that didn't really look that hard, yet I did it wrong at...
PWC 293 Similar Dominos Done Badly
Perl Weekly Challenge 293 gave us a problem that didn't really look that hard, yet I did it wrong at...
PWC 287 Strength in Numbers
Let's knock off Task 2: Valid Number first, since it's the easy one. This asks us to recognize...
PWC 281 Knight's Move
PWC 281 Task 2: Knight's Move A Knight in chess can move from its current position to any...
PWC 274 Waiting at the Bus Stop
For this week's challenge, we have an interesting problem to ponder while we're Waiting at the Bus...