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Sentinel values in loops

A quick google search for loop sentinels reveals a lot of pages whose focus is using a sentinel value to determine when to end a loop. IMO this misses the key (if you will excuse the expression) value of loop sentinels: preventing unnecessary code duplication. I'm going to

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Python solution to the weekly challenge 325 task 2

Task 2: Final Price: You are given an array of item prices. Write a script to find out the final price of each items in the given array. There is a special discount scheme going on. If there’s an item with a lower or equal price later in the

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Idiomatic Perl solutions to the weekly challenge 325 task 1

Task 1: Consecutive One: You are given a binary array containing only 0 or/and 1. Write a script to find out the maximum consecutive 1 in the given array. A regex might be fun? Regexes can do so many tricks, maybe here too. Let's start with something

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Idiomatic Perl solutions to the weekly challenge 324

Task 1: You are given an array of integers and two integers $r amd $c. Write a script to create two dimension array having $r rows and $c columns using the given array. I'm sure there are modules to facilitate this, but I'm not sure any