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Not a Nice Problem to Have: the weekly challenge 329 task 2

Task 2: Nice Strings: You are given a string made up of lower and upper case English letters only. Write a script to return the longest substring of the give string which is nice. A string is nice if, for every letter of the alphabet that the string contains, it

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Y Translate? The weekly challenge 329 task 1

Task 1: Counter Integers: You are given a string containing only lower case English letters and digits. Write a script to replace every non-digit character with a space and then return all the distinct integers left. The first part is easy. In Python:[1] new_string = string.translate({ c:'

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Property is Theft, Theft is Good: the weekly challenge 328 task 2

Task 2: Good String: You are given a string made up of lower and upper case English letters only. Write a script to return the good string of the given string. A string is called good string if it doesn’t have two adjacent same characters, one in upper case

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In case of doubt, use a regex: the weekly challenge 328 task 1

Task 1: Replace all ?: You are given a string containing only lower case English letters and ?. Write a script to replace all ? in the given string so that the string doesn’t contain consecutive repeating characters. This problem reminds me of a logic puzzle, figuring out all the possibilities and

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Python and Perl solutions to the weekly challenge 327

Task 1: Missing Integers: You are given an array of n integers. Write a script to find all the missing integers in the range 1..n in the given array. Just offhand, I can think of several approaches to this problem: * loop over the range and for each number loop

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Python solutions to the weekly challenge 326

Task 1: Day of the Year: You are given a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Write a script to find day number of the year that the given date represent. First of all, what calendar the date is in is not given, nor is a location to allow us 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