Perl Weekly Challenge: Strings Will Tear Us Apart

Perl Weekly Challenge 360‘s tasks are “Valid Tag” and “Group Division”.

Really, when I saw the word “Division”, it made me think of the 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees which were announced last night, which included Joy Division and New Order being inducted together. So let’s have some Joy Division to code to: Love Will Tear Us Apart.

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Perl Weekly Challenge: And the 2013 Tony Award for Best Coding Challenge goes to…

Perl Weekly Challenge 368‘s tasks are “Make it Bigger” and “Big and Little Omega”.

I swear, Mohammad Sajid Anwar must be teasing me with these titles, since the first one is lifted verbatim from the lyrics of the opening number to the 2013 Tony Awards telecast, “Bigger!” (written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt and performed by the inimitable Neil Patrick Harris).

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Word Crimes are Justified

Since Perl Weekly Challenge 360‘s tasks are “Text Justifier” and “Word Sorter”, I first thought about trying to find some song in my music collection that featured justification. “That shouldn’t be hard,” I thought, “because I’ve got so much folk…”

Then the weird part of my brain took over, and insisted on Al Yankovich’s Word Crimes.

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