From b863d69689ab5c27820954f0534d8b47a2c7bd86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Packy Anderson <packy@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 02:31:27 -0400
Subject: Challenge 280 solutions by Packy Anderson

  * Raku that maybe looks like Raku, but mostly like Perl
  * Perl
  * Python that definitely looks like Perl
  * Elixir

1 Blog post
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 challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-1.py | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-2.py | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-1.py
 create mode 100755 challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-2.py

(limited to 'challenge-280/packy-anderson/python')

diff --git a/challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-1.py b/challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-1.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..def9b93832
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-1.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from collections import Counter
+
+def twiceAppearance(str):
+  count = Counter()
+  for char in str:
+    count[char] += 1
+    if count[char] > 1:
+       return char
+  return "␀" # fallback
+
+def solution(str):
+    print(f'Input: $str = "{str}"')
+    print(f'Output: "{twiceAppearance(str)}"')
+
+print('Example 1:')
+solution("acbddbca")
+
+print('\nExample 2:')
+solution("abccd")
+
+print('\nExample 3:')
+solution("abcdabbb")
+
+print('\nExample 4:')
+solution("abcdefg")
diff --git a/challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-2.py b/challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-2.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..bdbf0cbfc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-280/packy-anderson/python/ch-2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from collections import Counter
+import re
+
+def countAsterisks(str):
+  count = Counter(re.sub(r'\|[^|]+\|', '', str))
+  return count["*"]
+
+def solution(str):
+    print(f'Input: $str = "{str}"')
+    print(f'Output: {countAsterisks(str)}')
+
+print('Example 1:')
+solution("p|*e*rl|w**e|*ekly|")
+
+print('\nExample 2:')
+solution("perl")
+
+print('\nExample 3:')
+solution("th|ewe|e**|k|l***ych|alleng|e")
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