- Added solutions by Luca Ferrari.

- Added solutions by Athanasius.
- Added solutions by Laurent Rosenfeld.
- Added solutions by Mohammad Meraj Zia.

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diff --git a/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/blog1.txt b/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/blog1.txt
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+https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/02/perl-weekly-challenge-256-merge-strings.html
diff --git a/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/perl/ch-2.pl
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index 0000000000..f9831a9944
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+++ b/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/perl/ch-2.pl
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+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use feature 'say';
+
+sub merge_strings  {
+    my ($str1, $str2) = @_;
+    my @let1 = split //, $str1;
+    my @let2 = split //, $str2;
+    my $end = scalar @let1 > scalar @let2 ? $#let1 : $#let2;
+    my @result = map { ($let1[$_] // "") .
+                       ($let2[$_] // "") } 0..$end;
+    return join "", @result;
+}
+
+my @tests = ([<abcd 1234>], [<abc 12345>], [<abcde 123>]);
+for my $test (@tests) {
+    printf "%-12s => ", "@$test";
+    say merge_strings $test->[0], $test->[1];
+}
diff --git a/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/raku/ch-2.raku b/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/raku/ch-2.raku
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index 0000000000..c23ea84405
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+++ b/challenge-256/laurent-rosenfeld/raku/ch-2.raku
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+sub merge-strings ($str1, $str2) {
+    my $res = join "", roundrobin $str1.comb, $str2.comb, :slip;
+    return $res;
+}
+
+my @tests = <abcd 1234>, <abc 12345>, <abcde 123>;
+for @tests -> @test {
+    printf "%-12s => ", "@test[]";
+    say merge-strings @test[0], @test[1];
+}
diff --git a/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-1.python b/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-1.py
index e8456319db..e8456319db 100644
--- a/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-1.python
+++ b/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-1.py
diff --git a/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-2.python b/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-2.py
index abf9af51de..abf9af51de 100644
--- a/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-2.python
+++ b/challenge-256/luca-ferrari/python/ch-2.py
diff --git a/challenge-256/ziameraj16/java/MergeStrings.java b/challenge-256/ziameraj16/java/MergeStrings.java
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index 0000000000..446ff9dc96
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+++ b/challenge-256/ziameraj16/java/MergeStrings.java
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+import java.util.*;
+
+public class MergeStrings {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
+        System.out.println("Enter first string");
+        String first = scanner.nextLine();
+        System.out.println("Enter second string");
+        String second = scanner.nextLine();
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        int i = 0;
+        while (i < first.length() && i < second.length()) {
+            sb.append(first.charAt(i));
+            sb.append(second.charAt(i));
+            i++;
+        }
+        if (first.length() > second.length()) {
+            sb.append(first.substring(i));
+        } else if (second.length() > first.length()) {
+            sb.append(second.substring(i));
+        }
+        System.out.println(sb);
+    }
+}