Tim King's Perl Weekly Challenge Solutions

© 2024 J. Timothy King

The source code for this repository is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. See the file LICENSE for details.

This repository contains my solutions to the weekly challenges published by the Perl Weekly Challenge. The Perl Weekly Challenge is a weekly challenge for Perl programmers. Each week, the site publishes two new challenges, and the community submits solutions in Perl and other languages.

Directory Structure

Each week's solutions are in a separate directory, named challenge-xxx, where xxx is the week number on The Perl Weekly Challenge site. Each directory contains subdirectories for each language the solution is written in, as well as a t directory containing test scripts. A blog.md file contains a write-up of the solution.

Requirements

• The test scripts are written in Perl, so you need Perl to run them. They also require Test2::V0, Test2::Tools::Spec, and Path::Tiny. Individual tests may require additional CPAN modules.
• The Perl solutions require a sufficiently recent Perl interpreter, plus any CPAN modules that they use.
• The C# solutions require the .NET SDK.
• The Python solutions require a Python interpreter.

I recommend using perlbrew to install and use an appropriate version of Perl. These projects require at least Perl 5.38. In general, I try to write the Perl solutions and tests not to require additional CPAN modules, but in some case, this may be needed. If you're using perlbrew, you can install missing modules using cpanm.

To run the C# solutions and tests, you need to have the .NET SDK installed. These projects use .NET 8.0. Multiple versions of the SDK are installed side-by-side on the same machine, so you can install the latest version without affecting other projects.

The Python solutions use Python 3.12. To run the automated tests, a virtual Python environment should be put in .venv off of the repository root.

Running the Tests

Each challenge's solution has a corresponding .t file in the t directory, which contains tests for the solution. This file can be run directly, using perl, or can be run using yath or prove.