From 76dd57bbc153db7d4c51fb228bcdb2127486dd34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Campbell Smith <pj.campbell.smith@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:01:57 +0100
Subject: Week 331 - Last word, buddy

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 challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/blog.txt     |  1 +
 challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-1.pl | 23 ++++++++
 challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-2.pl | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 96 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/blog.txt
 create mode 100755 challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
 create mode 100755 challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-2.pl

diff --git a/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/blog.txt b/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/blog.txt
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+++ b/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/blog.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/331
diff --git a/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
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+++ b/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Blog: http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge
+
+use v5.26;    # The Weekly Challenge - 2025-07-21
+use utf8;     # Week 331 - task 1 - Last word
+use warnings; # Peter Campbell Smith
+binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
+use Encode;
+
+last_word('The Weekly Challenge');
+last_word('   Hello   World    ');
+last_word('123 4567');
+last_word('');
+last_word('Danger!');
+
+sub last_word {
+	
+	$_[0] =~ m|([a-z]+)[^a-z]*$|i;
+	
+	say qq[\nInput: '$_[0]'];
+	say qq[Output: ] . (defined($1) ? length($1) : 0);
+}
diff --git a/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-2.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..55ea8fac35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-331/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Blog: http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge
+
+use v5.26;    # The Weekly Challenge - 2025-07-21
+use utf8;     # Week 331 - task 2 - Buddy strings
+use warnings; # Peter Campbell Smith
+binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
+use Encode;
+
+buddy_strings('luck', 'lcuk');
+buddy_strings('love', 'love');
+buddy_strings('feed', 'feed');
+buddy_strings('enchilada', 'anchilade');
+buddy_strings('3 blind mice', '3 clind mibe');
+buddy_strings('12345', '12435');
+
+sub buddy_strings {
+	
+	my ($one, $two, $length, $result, $j, $char1, $char2, $mismatch, %seen);
+	
+	# initialise
+	($one, $two) = @_;
+	
+	# loop over corresponding chars in each string
+	$length = length($one);
+	$result = 'false';
+	if ($length == length($two)) {
+		for $j (0 .. $length - 1) {
+			$char1 = substr($one, $j, 1);
+			$char2 = substr($two, $j, 1);
+			
+			# swapped chars must be letters
+			next unless ($char1 . $char2) =~ m|[a-z]{2}|i;
+			
+			# if they differ
+			if ($char1 ne $char2) {
+				
+				# this is the first mismatch, so save it
+				unless (defined $mismatch) {
+					$mismatch = $j;
+					
+				# this is the second mismatch, so can it swap with the first?
+				} elsif ($result eq 'false') {
+					if ($char1 eq substr($two, $mismatch, 1) and $char2 eq substr($one, $mismatch, 1)) {
+						$result = qq[true - '$char1' and '$char2'];
+					}
+				
+				# this is a 3rd mismatch so not buddies
+				} else {
+					$result = 'false';
+					last;
+				}	
+			}
+		}
+		
+		# check for identical strings with (any) repeated letter
+		if ($one eq $two) {
+			for $j (0 .. $length - 1) {
+				$char1 = substr($one, $j, 1);
+				if ($seen{$char1}) {
+					$result = qq[true - '$char1' and '$char1'];
+					last;
+				}
+				$seen{$char1} = 1 if $char1 =~ m|[a-z]|;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+		
+	say qq[\nInput:  \$source = '$one', \$target = '$two'];
+	say qq[Output: $result];
+}
-- 
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