Merge pull request #10442 from wlmb/challenges

Solve PWC278

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diff --git a/challenge-278/wlmb/blog.txt b/challenge-278/wlmb/blog.txt
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+https://wlmb.github.io/2024/07/15/PWC278/
diff --git a/challenge-278/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-278/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# Perl weekly challenge 278
+# Task 1:  Sort String
+#
+# See https://wlmb.github.io/2024/07/15/PWC278/#task-1-sort-string
+use v5.36;
+die <<~"FIN" unless @ARGV;
+    Usage: $0 S1 S2...
+    Sort the strings S1 S2...
+    Each string is formed of space-separated word-number strings, i.e., a word concatenated to a
+    non-negative number giving its position.
+    FIN
+for(@ARGV){
+    my @pair_strings=split " ", $_;
+    my @pairs;
+    for(@pair_strings){
+	/^(.+)?([0-9]+)$/ or die "Expected WD where W are word characters and D are digits: $_";
+	push @pairs, [$1, $2];
+    }
+    my @sorted=map {$_->[0]} sort {$a->[1] <=> $b->[1] || lc $a->[0] cmp lc $b->[0]} @pairs;
+    say "$_ -> @sorted";
+}
diff --git a/challenge-278/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-278/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# Perl weekly challenge 278
+# Task 2:  Reverse Word
+#
+# See https://wlmb.github.io/2024/07/15/PWC278/#task-2-reverse-word
+use v5.36;
+use experimental qw(for_list);
+die <<~"FIN" unless @ARGV and @ARGV%2==0;
+    Usage: $0 S1 C1 S2 C2...
+    to sort the characters of each string Si upto the character Ci
+    FIN
+for my($string, $char)(@ARGV){
+    warn "Expected a single character: $char" unless length $char == 1;
+    my $out=$string =~ /^(.*?$char)(.*)$/
+	? join("", sort{$a cmp $b} split "", $1) . $2
+        : $string;
+    say "$string $char -> $out"
+}