Hi

I stumbled over some blog posts choosing brute-forc'ish algos to solve the perl-weekly-challenge-206.

Here my take on it ... (I hid the "spoilers")

I hope my approaches are clever solutions, please correct me otherwise.

But I'm not too fond of my approach with List::Util::reduce() for task1. It's a hack to process successive pairs instead of even pairs.( 1-2 than 2-3 vs 3-4 )

Is there a more elegant way to do it with a function from List::Util ?

BTW: Generating the tests from the POD is nice too. :)

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>

--- Task 1
ok 1 - ("00:00", "23:55", "20:00") -> 5
ok 2 - ("01:01", "00:50", "00:57") -> 4
ok 3 - ("10:10", "09:30", "09:00", "09:55") -> 15
--- Task 2
ok 4 - (1,2,3,4) -> 4
ok 5 - (0,2,1,3) -> 2
1..5

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
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In reply to Perl Weekly Challenge 206 with List::Util by LanX

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