Perl Weekly Challenge 271: Maximum Ones

These are some answers to the Week 271, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on June 2, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

Task 1: Maximum Ones

You are given a m x n binary matrix.

Write a script to return the row number containing maximum ones, in case of more than one rows then return smallest row number.

Example 1

Input: $matrix = [ [0, 1],
                   [1, 0],
                 ]
Output: 1

Row 1 and Row 2 have the same number of ones, so return row 1.

This week in PSC (133) | 2024-01-25

Just me and Graham this week.

  • builtin::nan needs better documentation on the kind of NaN it provides.
  • We discussed lots about builtin and lexical imports, and how to handle a few odd cornercases.
  • Perl 5.39.7 is now out; we need to work out the schedule for the final few devel releases and the real thing in May.

Curated list of Perl modules

See Perl.html
It's an example of the fabulous TiddlyWiki (tiddlywiki.com), so it's about 230,000 bytes.

An Option for Syntax Highlighting on blogs.perl.org

I've struggled with the syntax highlighting here on this blog. I really want to use this site and I will continue to do so.

After trying in vain to get some "auto" syntax highlighting here via the editor, I reached for an old trick I've used in the past. Generating HTML using some external service. After a quick Google search, I found https://tohtml.com/perl/. Given a block of Perl code, it'll generate HTML based syntax highlighting that one may add to their post. For example,

Decent Syntax Highlighting (from tohtml.com/perl)

# Perl Weekly Challenge 270: Special Positions

These are some answers to the Week 270, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on May 26, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

Task 1: Special Positions

You are given a m x n binary matrix.

Write a script to return the number of special positions in the given binary matrix.

A position (i, j) is called special if $matrix[i][j] == 1 and all other elements in the row i and column j are 0.

Example 1

German Perl/Raku Workshop 2024

(English below)

Der nächste Deutsche Perl/Raku-Workshop wird vom 15. bis 17. April 2024 in Frankfurt stattfinden. Damit wir interessante drei Tage mit Perl und Raku verbringen können, brauchen wir Vorträge und Teilnehmer... Vortragsvorschläge könnt ihr bereits einreichen und auch anmelden könnt ihr euch schon hier...

https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2024

The German Perl/Raku workshop will take place
on the 15th to 17th April 2024 again in Frankfurt am Main.
We will spend three interesting days with Perl and Raku, so you are invited
to participate and also to give presentations.

You can submit your presentations here

Hai Julia !

I released Juliagraph an interactive fractal painter for Julia and Mandelbrot types of fractal.

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Final Call - 2024 TPRC Science Track Survey

We have had a good number of responses, but would like more. And time is running out! Please take this survey and share with your Perl contacts.

Survey URL: https://forms.gle/DDPWsNqEsZW8AyWX7

The track would target academic and industrial STEM applications, and emulate in some way traditional science conference tracks; meaning the talks would be based on paper and poster submissions. If this came to pass, the Science Perl Committee would also follow up with the publishing of the papers in an official proceedings of this track.

Survey officially closes on Thursday, November 23, 2023. But we would love your feedback!

Sincerely,
Brett Estrade
oodler@cpan.org
Chairman, Science Perl Committee

Perl Weekly Challenge 269: Distribute Elements

These are some answers to the Week 269, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on May 19, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

Task 2: Distribute Elements

You are given an array of distinct integers, @ints.

Write a script to distribute the elements as described below:

1) Put the 1st element of the given array to a new array @arr1. 2) Put the 2nd element of the given array to a new array @arr2.

Once you have one element in each arrays, @arr1 and @arr2, then follow the rule below:

If the last element of the array @arr1 is greater than the last element of the array @arr2 then add the first element of the given array to @arr1 otherwise to the array @arr2.

When done distribution, return the concatenated arrays. @arr1 and @arr2.

FOSDEM 2024 Call for Participation

The Perl and Raku Foundation is thrilled to announce that the FOSDEM organising team has accepted our proposal to set up a DevRoom on Saturday, February 3rd 2024. It has been quite a few years since the last Perl DevRoom at FOSDEM. Historically, they have always been well attended and packed.

Time for an Update

Since last time, a lot has happened, and TPRF is excited to help create this venue for sharing news with developers from Europe and across the globe. Many FOSDEM visitors have a background using Perl, but may have missed out on recent developments. Larry Wall himself was a guest speaker at FOSDEM in 2015 to announce Perl 6, which was later renamed to Raku. Much has happened since then, and there is lots to share!

Participation

This week in PSC (123) | 2023-11-09

We skipped the meeting last week (2023-11-02). This week was a quiet week too, so we don’t have much to report.

We talked a bit about the PPCs currently being implemented. PPCs 14 (English names) and 21 (optional chaining) have people implementing them - we hope to have some progress to publish soon.

Dodging the Go loop trap

Ted Unangst:

And now we’re trapped. There’s only one friend variable, constantly changing as we go through the loop, with the most likely result one of our friends will get half a dozen messages, while the other five receive nothing, to the annoyance of both groups.

Funny that Perl got this one right when not only many before didn’t but many since also haven’t.

In Go, as Ted says, they may even change the language to fix it; in Javascript, they already have.

Perl Weekly Challenge 269: Bitwise OR

These are some answers to the Week 269, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on May 19, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

Task 1: Bitwise OR

You are given an array of positive integers, @ints.

Write a script to find out if it is possible to select two or more elements of the given array such that the bitwise OR of the selected elements has at least one trailing zero in its binary representation.

Example 1

Setting up a free Oracle Database for Perl development

I recently added Oracle Database support to SQL::Inserter (check it out if you'd like simple to use, high-performance inserting to SQL databases). I had not used an Oracle Database since my uni days 20 years ago, so I had to set one up to test it.

Even though Oracle provides a free development DB, the process is not as simple as Postgres/MySQL etc., so I thought I'd document it for future reference.

There are basically two ways you can go, with Oracle providing instructions either for a VirtualBox VM, or Docker. For the purposes of this article, we'll use VirtualBox. If you prefer Docker, you can follow Oracle's instructions and skip the next section.

Setting up the Oracle VM

Oracle provides instructions for setting up a VM with their latest 23c Database.

To sum up, you download and install VirtualBox, as well as the 23c VM image (.ova).

Launch VirtualBox, go to File->Import Appliance and select the .ova file that you just downloaded. You can leave the defaults for the import.

Dancer Advent Calendar 2023

Hey Dancers! We’re doing an advent calendar this year, and we’d love for you to contribute. Tell us your Dancer success story! Write about a project you worked on that used Dancer, a plugin you wrote, a plugin you love, anything.

December is coming fast, so get your ideas in now. Please reply to this post if you’d be interesting in helping with this year’s advent calendar.

2024 Perl Conference - Science Track Interest Survey

Greetings Perl People!

There is a strong official consideration by The Perl and Raku Foundation of including a new kind of track to the 2024 Perl and Raku Conference in Las Vegas.

Survey URL: https://forms.gle/DDPWsNqEsZW8AyWX7

The track would target academic and industrial STEM applications, and emulate in some way traditional science conference tracks; meaning the talks would be based on paper and poster submissions. If this came to pass, the Science Perl Committee would also follow up with the publishing of the papers in an official proceedings of this track. But we need your feedback!

Survey URL: https://forms.gle/DDPWsNqEsZW8AyWX7

Please complete and share the survey link so that we may convince the already overworked TPRC planning committee that it's worth the extra effort :-). You may also express support in the comments section below or email them directly to me so that I may forward them to the TPRF - oodler@cpan.org. There are ongoing discussions in the TPRF Slack also - see you there! A call for volunteers will be made at such a time that this proposal is accepted.

Sincerely,
Brett Estrade
oodler@cpan.org
Chairman, Science Perl Committee

Perl Weekly Challenge 268: Number Game

These are some answers to the Week 268, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on May 12, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

Task 2: Number Game

You are given an array of integers, @ints, with even number of elements.

Write a script to create a new array made up of elements of the given array. Pick the two smallest integers and add it to new array in decreasing order i.e. high to low. Keep doing until the given array is empty.

Example 1

This week in PSC (132) | 2024-01-18

We discussed

  • lwn.net writes a lot about Python. Should we let them know “Hey Perl still exists, here’s what we’re doing” too?
  • Reviewed a draft of some slides for the “Updates from the PSC” FOSDEM talk
  • Discussed some thoughts around getting use VERSION to imply builtins
  • Further clarifications were made on the PPC0019 (qt strings)

Recordings of the German Perl Workshop (gpw2023) are online

After a long time of work, the videos are finally available on Youtube. 20 presentations with a total of 14 hours of airtime review the three days of the workshop and you can watch the things you missed on site.

We would especially like to thank Lee Johnson, who made the recordings, and the presenters, of course, without whom the workshop would not have taken place. The support from our sponsors helps us make the workshop take place.

OTOBO
united-domains
Perl-Services.de Renée Bäcker
Geizhals Preisvergleich
PayProp

The recordings of the German Perl Workshop 2023 are organised in the order of the day in a playlist available at gpw2023.

We are planning the German Perl Workshop 2024 again and are already in the final negotiations. As soon as we have a place and date fixed, we will update this post and also make a separate announcement.

Config::Tiny V 2.30 supports keys with arrays as values

Yes, it's true. Config::Tiny now allows you to assign an array of values to a key.
The docs have been updated to include a new section, ARRAY SYNTAX.
Various examples are documented there and in test files. Sample usage:

[section]
greetings[]=Hello
greetings[]=World!
one=two
Foo=Bar

Note: The 2 lines of greetings can be separated by other lines too.

You access these values like this:
say $Config->{section}->{greetings}->[0];
say $Config->{section}->{greetings}->[1]

This patch was kindly provided by Steven Schoch.

See the Changes file for details.

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