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+-- Perl Weekly Challenge 184
+-- Task 2
+
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS pwc184;
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
+pwc184.task2_plpgsql( strings text[])
+RETURNS TABLE (n text, l text)
+AS $CODE$
+DECLARE
+        current_string text;
+        current_thing text;
+BEGIN
+        n := null;
+        l := null;
+        FOREACH current_string IN ARRAY strings LOOP
+                FOREACH current_thing IN ARRAY regexp_split_to_array( current_string, '' ) LOOP
+                        -- since '\w' gets also numbers
+                        -- the test is performed only if it is not
+                        -- a number
+                        IF current_thing ~ '\d' THEN
+                           IF n IS NULL THEN
+                              n := current_thing::text;
+                           ELSE
+                             n := n || ',' || current_thing;
+                           END IF;
+                        ELSEIF current_thing ~ '\w' THEN
+                           IF l IS NULL THEN
+                              l := current_thing::text;
+                           ELSE
+                             l := l || ',' || current_thing;
+                           END IF;
+                        END IF;
+                END LOOP;
+        END LOOP;
+
+        RETURN NEXT;
+        RETURN;
+END
+$CODE$
+LANGUAGE plpgsql;