Merge pull request #4655 from simongreen-net/swg-124

sgreen solution to task 2 challenge 124

3 files changed, 92 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-124/sgreen/README.md b/challenge-124/sgreen/README.md
index 1b1ced64d1..e025103f4b 100644
--- a/challenge-124/sgreen/README.md
+++ b/challenge-124/sgreen/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-# The Weekly Challenge 123
+# The Weekly Challenge 124
 
-Solution by Simon Green. [Blog](https://dev.to/simongreennet/weekly-challenge-123-2flk)
+Solution by Simon Green. [Blog](https://dev.to/simongreennet/weekly-challenge-124-2gi7)
diff --git a/challenge-124/sgreen/blog.txt b/challenge-124/sgreen/blog.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..822fd3f8aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-124/sgreen/blog.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+https://dev.to/simongreennet/weekly-challenge-124-2gi7
diff --git a/challenge-124/sgreen/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-124/sgreen/perl/ch-2.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6a955f9654
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-124/sgreen/perl/ch-2.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use feature 'say';
+
+use List::Util qw(none sum);
+
+sub _get_next_combination {
+    my ( $size, @combination ) = @_;
+
+    # First time run
+    if ( scalar(@combination) == 0 ) {
+        my $half_size = int( $size / 2 );
+        return ( 0 .. $half_size - 1 );
+    }
+
+    # How many numbers do we need to change
+    my $count = 0;
+    while ( ++$count ) {
+        last if $combination[ -$count ] < $size - $count;
+
+        # There are no more combinations
+        return if $count == int( $size / 2 );
+    }
+
+    # Add one to the first number
+    $combination[ -$count ]++;
+
+    # If there is any other numbers to change, add 1 from the previous digit
+    foreach my $i ( $#combination - $count + 2 .. $#combination ) {
+        $combination[$i] = $combination[ $i - 1 ] + 1;
+    }
+
+    return @combination;
+}
+
+sub main {
+    my @values = @_;
+    my $size   = @values;
+
+    # Sanity check
+    die "You must provide two or more integers\n" unless $size > 1;
+    foreach my $x (@values) {
+        die "The value '$x does not appear to be a integer\n" unless $x =~ /^-?[0-9]+$/;
+    }
+
+    # Get half the sum of all the numbers. This is the target we want to
+    #  hit for one of the sets.
+    my $target = sum(@values) / 2;
+
+    # This records the best set we've found so far.
+    my $best_sum    = 'inf';
+    my @first_set   = ();
+    my @combination = ();
+
+    # Go through all possible combinations of the first set
+    while ( @combination = _get_next_combination( $size, @combination ) ) {
+
+        # Calculate the difference between the sum of this set and the target
+        my $sum  = sum( @values[@combination] );
+        my $diff = abs( $sum - $target );
+
+        if ( $diff == 0 ) {
+            # We've find the best combination
+            @first_set = @combination;
+            last;
+        }
+        elsif ( $diff < $best_sum ) {
+            # We've found a better combination
+            $best_sum  = $diff;
+            @first_set = @combination;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    # Get the second set (everything not in the first set!)
+    my @second_set = grep {
+        my $i = $_;
+        none { $i == $_ } @first_set
+    } ( 0 .. $#values );
+
+    # Print the results
+    say 'Subset 1 = (', join( ', ', @values[@first_set] ),  ')';
+    say 'Subset 2 = (', join( ', ', @values[@second_set] ), ')';
+
+}
+
+main(@ARGV);