#!/usr/bin/perl use v5.26; use Test2::V0 -no_srand; use Test2::Tools::Subtest 'subtest_streamed'; use Getopt::Long; use experimental 'signatures'; use List::MoreUtils 'part'; use List::Util 'mesh'; ### Options and Arguments my ($tests, $examples, $verbose); GetOptions( 'examples!' => \$examples, 'tests!' => \$tests, 'verbose!' => \$verbose, ) or usage(); run_tests($examples, $tests); # tests do not return usage() unless @ARGV; sub usage { die <<~EOS; $0 - balance string usage: $0 [-examples] [-tests] [STR] -examples run the examples from the challenge -tests run some tests STR a string containing letters and digits only EOS } ### Input and Output say balance_string(shift); ### Implementation # # For details see: # https://github.sommrey.de/the-bears-den/2025/10/17/ch-342.html#task-1 sub balance_string ($str) { my @parts = part {/\D/} sort split //, $str; my $ld = $parts[1]->@* - $parts[0]->@*; return '' if abs $ld > 1; join '', (mesh $ld > 0 ? reverse @parts : @parts)[0 .. length($str) - 1]; } ### Examples and Tests sub run_tests ($examples, $tests) { return unless $examples || $tests; state sub run_example ($args, $expected, $name) { my $result = balance_string(@$args); is $result, $expected, "$name: ('@$args') -> '$expected'"; } plan 2; $examples ? subtest_streamed(examples => sub { my @examples = ( [['a0b1c2'], '0a1b2c', 'example 1'], [['abc12'], 'a1b2c', 'example 2'], [['0a2b1c3'], '0a1b2c3', 'example 3'], [['1a23'], '', 'example 4'], [['ab123'], '1a2b3', 'example 5'], ); plan scalar @examples; for (@examples) { run_example @$_; } }) : pass 'skip examples'; $tests ? subtest_streamed(tests => sub { plan 1; pass 'no tests'; }) : pass 'skip tests'; exit; }