#!/usr/bin/env bash # # The Weekly Challenge 255 - By Nelo Tovar # # https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-255/ # # Task 1 : Odd Character function odd_character() { local s=$1 local t=$2 declare -A frequency=() for (( i = 0; i < ${#t}; i++ )); do letter=${t:$i:1} ((frequency[$letter]++)) done for (( i = 0; i < ${#s}; i++ )); do letter=${s:$i:1} ((frequency[$letter]--)) done for key in "${!frequency[@]}"; do if [ ${frequency[$key]} -gt 0 ]; then echo $key return fi done echo ' ' } declare -A examples=([Perl]=Preel [Weekly]=Weealy [Box]=Boxy) for key in "${!examples[@]}"; do s=$key t=${examples[$key]} oc=$(odd_character $s $t) echo "Input : s = $s t = $t" echo "Output : $oc" echo "" done