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+#!/usr/bin/perl -s
+
+use v5.24;
+use Test2::V0 '!float';
+use PDL;
+use PDL::Char;
+
+our ($tests, $examples, $char);
+
+run_tests() if $tests || $examples;	# does not return
+
+die <<EOS unless defined $char && @ARGV == 1;
+usage: $0 [-examples] [-tests] [-char=C S]
+
+-examples
+    run the examples from the challenge
+ 
+-tests
+    run some tests
+
+-char=C
+    find distances to character C within the given string S
+
+S
+    a string
+
+EOS
+
+
+### Input and Output
+
+say shortest_distance($char, shift);
+
+
+### Implementation
+
+sub shortest_distance {
+    my $c = PDL::Char->new(shift);
+    my $s = PDL::Char->new(shift);
+    my $p = which($s == $c)->long;
+    return if $p->isempty;
+
+	minover abs sequence(1, $s->dim(0)) - $p;
+}
+
+
+### Examples and tests
+
+sub run_tests {
+    SKIP: {
+        skip "examples" unless $examples;
+
+        is shortest_distance('e', 'loveleetcode')->unpdl,
+            [3,2,1,0,1,0,0,1,2,2,1,0], 'example 1';
+        is shortest_distance('b', 'aaab')->unpdl,
+            [3,2,1,0], 'example 2';
+    }
+
+    SKIP: {
+        skip "tests" unless $tests;
+	}
+
+    done_testing;
+    exit;
+}