initial PWC 286 commit

3 files changed, 52 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-286/atschneid/README.md b/challenge-286/atschneid/README.md
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--- a/challenge-286/atschneid/README.md
+++ b/challenge-286/atschneid/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# PWC 285
+# PWC 286
 
-**Challenge 285 solutions by Andrew Schneider**
+**Challenge 286 solutions by Andrew Schneider**
 
-[PWC 285](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-285/)
+[PWC 286](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-286/)
 
-Dyanmic programming for challenge 2. Whoa!
+Good stuff this week
 
 Thanks for the challenges!
diff --git a/challenge-286/atschneid/ch-1.pl b/challenge-286/atschneid/ch-1.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f2a45ea7de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-286/atschneid/ch-1.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+use v5.38;
+
+sub random_word {
+    open( my $fh, '<', 'ch-1.pl' );
+    my @words;
+    for (<$fh>) {
+	chomp;
+	grep { push @words, $_ } split ' ', $_;
+    }
+    my $idx = int( rand( scalar @words ) );
+    say $words[ $idx ];
+}
+
+random_word();
diff --git a/challenge-286/atschneid/ch-2.pl b/challenge-286/atschneid/ch-2.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b3c6ad7fa2
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+++ b/challenge-286/atschneid/ch-2.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+use v5.38;
+
+use List::Util qw( min max );
+
+sub find_min_max( @arr ) {
+    my $counter = 0;
+    while ( $#arr > 0 ) {
+	my @new_arr;
+	for (my $idx = 1; $idx <= $#arr; $idx += 2) {
+	    push @new_arr, ( $counter % 2 ) ?
+		max( $arr[$idx], $arr[$idx-1] ) :
+		min( $arr[$idx], $arr[$idx-1] );
+	    ++$counter;
+	}
+	@arr = @new_arr;
+    }
+    return $arr[0];
+}
+
+my @inputs = (
+    [2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 3, 0, 2],
+    [0, 5, 3, 2],
+    [9, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 0, 7, 3, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 0, 8],
+    );
+for (@inputs) {
+    say ( join ', ', @$_ );
+    say ' => ' . find_min_max( @$_ );
+}