I’m posting really late this week because this was a special week for my wife and I: 19 years ago this past Wednesday, I managed to get her alone during intermission of the production of Guys and Dolls we were in, and I asked her out on a date. I guess the date went well, because 19 years later we’re still together.

Count Common sounds entirely too much like a title, and to me there’s only one person who holds the title of Count… “Ah, my happy childhood in the Carpathian mountains… how well I remember!”

Now let us count common words and find strong pairs for Perl Weekly Challenge 277!

So, I don’t want to repeat my music selection from Seize The Day. I feel like this task needs another “day”… another day… oh. Another Day by James Taylor.

Well, with the music selection out of the way, let’s dive into Perl Weekly Challenge 276!

I’m sorry for the strange musical free association. but … 🎶 thinking of a sweet romance beginning in a queue… 🎶 there’s a reason this song is not very far away in my programming-addled brain.

So let’s take a ride down to Perl Weekly Challenge 274!

Musical free association: “B after A” became “time to play B sides…“

This week’s challenge is all about characters: counting occurrences of a character in a string and returning what percentage of the string it is, and determining if one of two characters occurs in a string after the last occurrence of the other character.

Without further ado, Perl Weekly Challenge 273!

This week, we’re “defanging” IP addresses and calculating string scores, but both these tasks are easy enough we’ll be there in a minute.

Onward to Perl Weekly Challenge 272!

What with all the ones in today’s binary challenges, the first thing that popped into my head was James Taylor’s Only One.

I mean, who can blame me? Now that we’ve set the musical tone, let’s dive into Perl Weekly Challenge 271!

There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium…

This week’s challenge is all about ELEMENTS! (That’s Perl Weekly Challenge 270, of course…)

Before I started on this tonight, I ran across a video of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s One Note Samba being performed by Dean Martin & Caterina Valente, and I knew I needed to make it the musical theme tonight, but I’m going to link you to John Pizzarelli’s version.

So, let’s samba on down to Perl Weekly Challenge 269!