Merge pull request #9560 from BarrOff/barroff-255

feat: add solutions for challenge 255 from BarrOff

5 files changed, 140 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-255/barroff/julia/ch-1.jl b/challenge-255/barroff/julia/ch-1.jl
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+#!/usr/bin/env julia
+
+using Test: @test, @testset
+
+function odd_character(s::T, t::T) where {T<:AbstractString}
+    sorted_s = sort(split(s, ""))
+    sorted_t = sort(split(t, ""))
+    for i in zip(sorted_s, sorted_t[1:end - 1])
+        if i[1] != i[2]
+            return i[2]
+        end
+    end
+    return sorted_t[end]
+end
+
+@testset "odd character" begin
+    @test odd_character("Perl", "Peerl") == "e"
+    @test odd_character("Weekly", "Weeakly") == "a"
+    @test odd_character("Box", "Boxy") == "y"
+end
diff --git a/challenge-255/barroff/nim/ch_1.nim b/challenge-255/barroff/nim/ch_1.nim
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+import std/[sugar, unittest]
+
+# run tests with following command:
+# nim c -r ch_1.nim
+
+proc odd_character(s, t: string): char =
+  let
+    s_split = collect:
+      for c in s: c
+    t_split = collect:
+      for c in t: c
+
+  for i in 0..<len(s):
+    if s_split[i] != t_split[i]:
+      return t_split[i]
+  return t_split[^1]
+
+suite "odd character":
+  test "Perl":
+    check(odd_character("Perl", "Peerl") == 'e')
+
+  test "Weekly":
+    check(odd_character("Weekly", "Weeakly") == 'a')
+
+  test "Box":
+    check(odd_character("Box", "Boxy") == 'y')
diff --git a/challenge-255/barroff/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-255/barroff/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use v5.38;
+
+sub odd_character ( $s, $t ) {
+    my @sorted_s = sort( split( //, $s ) );
+    my @sorted_t = sort( split( //, $t ) );
+    for ( 0 .. @sorted_s - 1 ) {
+        if ( $sorted_s[$_] ne $sorted_t[$_] ) {
+            return $sorted_t[$_];
+        }
+    }
+    return $sorted_t[-1];
+}
+
+sub MAIN() {
+    if ( @ARGV > 1 ) {
+
+        #| Run on command line argument
+        say odd_character( $ARGV[1], $ARGV[2] );
+    }
+    else {
+        #| Run test cases
+        use Test2::V0 qw( is plan );
+        plan 3;
+
+        is odd_character( 'Perl',   'Peerl' ),   'e', 'works for "Perl"';
+        is odd_character( 'Weekly', 'Weeakly' ), 'a', 'works for "Weekly"';
+        is odd_character( 'Box',    'Boxy' ),    'y', 'works for "Box"';
+    }
+}
+
+MAIN();
diff --git a/challenge-255/barroff/raku/ch-1.p6 b/challenge-255/barroff/raku/ch-1.p6
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+#!/usr/bin/env raku
+
+use v6.d;
+
+sub odd-character(Str:D $s, Str:D $t --> Str:D) {
+    (Bag($t.comb) (-) Bag($s.comb)).keys[0];
+}
+
+#| Run test cases
+multi sub MAIN('test') {
+    use Test;
+    plan 3;
+
+    is odd-character("Perl", "Preel"), "e", 'works for "Perl"';
+    is odd-character("Weekly", "Weeakly"), "a", 'works for "Weekly"';
+    is odd-character("Box", "Boxy"), "y", 'works for "Box"';
+}
+
+#| Take user provided word like aba
+multi sub MAIN(Str:D $s, Str:D $t) {
+    say odd-character($s, $t);
+}
diff --git a/challenge-255/barroff/raku/ch-2.p6 b/challenge-255/barroff/raku/ch-2.p6
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+#!/usr/bin/env raku
+
+use v6.d;
+
+sub most-frequent-word(Str:D $p, Str:D $w --> Str:D) {
+    my $frequencies = Bag(
+        grep(
+            { not($_ ~~ /$w/) },
+            split(
+                /\W+/,
+                $p
+            )
+        )
+    );
+    sort(
+        { $frequencies{$^a} ≤ $frequencies{$^b}},
+        keys($frequencies)
+    )[0];
+}
+
+#| Run test cases
+multi sub MAIN('test') {
+    use Test;
+    plan 2;
+
+    is most-frequent-word(
+        "Joe hit a ball, the hit ball flew far after it was hit.",
+        "hit"
+    ), "ball", 'works for "hit"';
+    is most-frequent-word("Perl and Raku belong to the same family." ~
+        " Perl is the most popular language in the weekly challenge.",
+        "the"
+    ), "Perl", 'works for "Perl"';
+}
+
+#| Take user provided word like aba
+multi sub MAIN(Str:D $p, Str:D $w) {
+    say most-frequent-word($p, $w);
+}