From e2ae72dc78da7a0f59666483f741b43a4c9d4e6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Lied <boblied+github@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 20:34:50 -0600
Subject: Task 1 output in same order as example

---
 challenge-249/bob-lied/perl/ch-1.pl | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/challenge-249/bob-lied/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-249/bob-lied/perl/ch-1.pl
index cd33587980..e829ac71ee 100644
--- a/challenge-249/bob-lied/perl/ch-1.pl
+++ b/challenge-249/bob-lied/perl/ch-1.pl
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ my $DoTest  = 0;
 GetOptions("test" => \$DoTest, "verbose" => \$Verbose);
 exit(!runTest()) if $DoTest;
 
+say "(", join(", ",
+    map { "($_->[0], $_->[1])" } equalPairs(@ARGV)->@*),
+    ")";
+
 sub equalPairs(@ints)
 {
     return [] if @ints % 2 == 1;
@@ -36,9 +40,14 @@ sub equalPairs(@ints)
     return [] if any { $_ % 2 == 1 } values %freq;
 
     my @pair;
-    for my $n ( sort { $a <=> $b } keys %freq )
+    while ( %freq )
     {
-        push @pair, [ $n, $n ] for 1 .. $freq{$n}/2;
+        for my $n ( sort { $a <=> $b } keys %freq )
+        {
+            push @pair, [ $n, $n ];
+            $freq{$n} -= 2;
+            delete $freq{$n} if $freq{$n} == 0;
+        }
     }
     return \@pair;
 }
@@ -47,8 +56,10 @@ sub runTest
 {
     use Test2::V0;
 
-    is( equalPairs(3,2,3,2,2,2), [[2,2],[2,2],[3,3]], "Example 1");
+    is( equalPairs(3,2,3,2,2,2), [[2,2],[3,3],[2,2]], "Example 1");
     is( equalPairs(1,2,3,4    ), [],                  "Example 2");
 
+    is( equalPairs(6,6,6,6,2,3,2,3,4,3,4,3), [[2,2],[3,3],[4,4],[6,6],[3,3],[6,6]], "More");
+
     done_testing;
 }
-- 
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