“Oh, look at that motorcycle, he’s ridin’ between / He’s splittin’ lanes, if you know what I mean…“
We’re just splitting strings this week. Oh, and sorting letters. Onward to Perl Weekly Challenge 279!
Perl Weekly Challenge: Word Reverse String Sort
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.
To celebrate, we went into Manhattan and went to see two musicals in one day: a matinee of Wicked, one of the musicals my wife was in love with when we met, and an evening performance of a new musical my wife wanted to see: Back to the Future. For today’s musical accompaniment, I’m presenting “For The Dreamers“, one of the new songs from the show.
But now that’s over, and my wife is off at rehearsal for the show she’s doing right now, so let’s sort some strings and reverse some words for Perl Weekly Challenge 278!
Continue readingPerl Weekly Challenge: “They call me the count, because I love to count pairs! Ah, ah, ah!”
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!
Perl Weekly Challenge: Complete Maximum Day Frequency
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!
Perl Weekly Challenge: Digitally Replace Broken Keys
I’m sorry for the lack of music this time around, but when I read “broken keys”, there’s only one broken key I can think of.
Let’s proceed with caution and approach Perl Weekly Challenge 275!
Continue readingPerl Weekly Challenge: Bus Route, Bus Goat, Under My Umbrellamaaaaaaaaaaaa
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!
Perl Weekly Challenge: Time to count B chars
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!
Perl Weekly Challenge: Defanged Addresses & String Scores
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!
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Perl Weekly Challenge: Only Ones
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!
Perl Weekly Challenge: Elements are Special
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…)