From 953168a1e47e346a5bc5e9afd18fe75788c37532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luis Mochan <mochan@fis.unam.mx>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:22:58 -0500
Subject: Solve PWC187

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 challenge-187/wlmb/blog.txt     |  1 +
 challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 challenge-187/wlmb/blog.txt
 create mode 100755 challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl
 create mode 100755 challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl

diff --git a/challenge-187/wlmb/blog.txt b/challenge-187/wlmb/blog.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+https://wlmb.github.io//2022/10/17/PWC187.org
diff --git a/challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# Perl weekly challenge 187
+# Task 1:  Days Together
+#
+# See https://wlmb.github.io/2022/10/17/PWC187/#task-1-days-together
+use v5.36;
+use List::Util qw(sum max min);
+sub ddmm2days($x){
+    state @month_lengths=qw(31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31);
+    die "Wrong format: $x" unless $x=~/(\d\d)-(\d\d)/;
+    my ($d,$m)=($1, $2);
+    die "Wrong month: $m" unless 1<=$m<=12;
+    die "Wrong day: $d. Only $month_lengths[$m-1] days in month $m"
+        unless 1<=$d<=$month_lengths[$m-1];
+    $d-1+sum @month_lengths[(0..$m-2)]
+}
+die <<"FIN" unless @ARGV==4;
+Usage: $0 fs fe bs be
+to obtain the number of days Foo and Bar are together,
+where fs and fe are the start and end dates of Foo's holidays and
+bs and be are the start and end dates of Bar's holidays. Dates are in the
+format DD-MM.
+FIN
+my ($foo_start, $foo_end, $bar_start, $bar_end)=@ARGV;
+my $days=  min(map {ddmm2days($_)} ($foo_end, $bar_end))
+      - max(map {ddmm2days($_)}($foo_start, $bar_start));
+$days=$days<0?0:1+$days;
+say "Overlap between intervals ($foo_start, $foo_end) and ($bar_start, $bar_end) is $days days";
diff --git a/challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-187/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# Perl weekly challenge 187
+# Task 2:  Magical Triplets
+#
+# See https://wlmb.github.io/2022/10/17/PWC187/#task-2-magical-triplets
+use v5.36;
+use Algorithm::Combinatorics qw(combinations);
+use List::Util qw(first);
+die <<FIN unless @ARGV;
+Usage: $0 N1 N2 N3 [N4...]
+to find the maximum ordered triplet with elements from {N1, N2...} that obeys
+the strict triangle inequalities.
+FIN
+my @set = sort {$b<=>$a} @ARGV;
+die "All numbers should be positive" unless $set[-1]>0;
+my $iterator=combinations(\@set, 3);
+while(my $triplet=$iterator->next){
+    die "Expected ordered triplet: $triplet" # Currently uneeded
+        unless $triplet->[0]>=$triplet->[1]>=$triplet->[2];
+    next unless $triplet->[1]+$triplet->[2]>$triplet->[0];
+    say "Input: (", join(", ", @ARGV), ") Output: (", join(", ", @$triplet), ")";
+    exit;
+}
+say "Input: (", join(", ", @ARGV), ") Output: ()";
-- 
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