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#!/usr/bin/perl
use v5.26;
use Test2::V0 qw(!float -no_srand);
use Test2::Tools::Subtest 'subtest_streamed';
use Getopt::Long;
use experimental 'signatures';
use PDL;
use PDL::NiceSlice;
### 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 > 3;
sub usage {
die <<~EOS;
$0 - max diff
usage: $0 [-examples] [-tests] [--] [N...]
-examples
run the examples from the challenge
-tests
run some tests
N...
list of at least four numbers
EOS
}
### Input and Output
say max_diff(@ARGV);
### Implementation
#
# For details see:
# https://github.sommrey.de/the-bears-den/2025/10/17/ch-339.html#task-1
sub max_diff (@n) {
my $n = long @n;
$n->badflag(1);
my $pd = null;
for my $subs ([\&find_max, \&find_min, 1], [\&find_min, \&find_max, -1]) {
my $nc = $n->copy;
my $m1 = &{$subs->[0]}($nc);
my $m2 = &{$subs->[1]}($nc->where($nc->isgood));
$pd = $pd->append($subs->[2] * ($m1 - $m2));
}
max $pd;
}
sub remove_prod ($l) {
my $prod = $l->prod;
$l .= $l->badvalue;
$prod;
}
sub find_max ($n) {
goto &remove_prod if $n->nelem == 2;
my ($pos, $neg) = which_both $n >= 0;
my $max_ind = null;
if ($pos->nelem >= 2) {
$max_ind = $max_ind->glue(1, maximum_n_ind($n, 2));
}
if ($neg->nelem >= 2) {
$max_ind = $max_ind->glue(1, minimum_n_ind($n, 2));
}
my $max = $n->index1d($max_ind)->prodover->maximum_ind;
remove_prod($n($max_ind(,($max))));
}
sub find_min ($n) {
goto &remove_prod if $n->nelem == 2;
my ($pos, $neg) = which_both $n >= 0;
if (!$neg->isempty && !$pos->isempty) {
return remove_prod($n(cat(($n->minmaximum)[2, 3])));
} elsif ($pos->isempty) {
return remove_prod($n(maximum_n_ind($n, 2)));
} else {
return remove_prod($n(minimum_n_ind($n, 2)));
}
}
### Examples and Tests
sub run_tests ($examples, $tests) {
return unless $examples || $tests;
state sub run_example ($args, $expected, $name) {
my $result = max_diff(@$args);
is $result, $expected,
"$name: (@$args) -> $expected";
}
plan 2;
$examples ? subtest_streamed(examples => sub {
my @examples = (
[[5, 9, 3, 4, 6], 42, 'example 1'],
[[1, -2, 3, -4], 10, 'example 2'],
[[-3, -1, -2, -4], 10, 'example 3'],
[[10, 2, 0, 5, 1], 50, 'example 4'],
[[7, 8, 9, 10, 10], 44, 'example 5'],
);
plan scalar @examples;
for (@examples) {
run_example @$_;
}
}) : pass 'skip examples';
$tests ? subtest_streamed(tests => sub {
my @tests = (
[[4, 3, 2, 1, -6, -7], 40, 'first example from blog'],
[[5, 3, 2, 1, -6, -7], 41, 'second example from blog'],
[[3, 2, 1, -5, -6], 28, 'max max, pos min'],
[[3, 2, -1, -5, -6], 33, 'max max, neg min'],
[[5, 2, 1, -4, -6], 32, 'min min, pos max'],
[[5, 2, -1, -6], 28, 'min min, neg max'],
[[5, 3, 2, 1, -6], 36, 'min min, pos max'],
[[3, 3, 1, -4, -5], 18, 'min min, pos max, two neg'],
[[1, 2, 3, 4], 10, 'all pos'],
[[-1, 2, 3, 4], 14, 'one neg'],
[[-1, -2, 3, 4], 10, 'two neg'],
[[-1, -2, -3, 4], 14, 'three neg'],
[[-1, -2, -3, -4], 10, 'all neg'],
);
plan scalar @tests;
for (@tests) {
run_example @$_;
}
}) : pass 'skip tests';
exit;
}
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