Greetings,
The question was solve 9 ? -4 ? 8 ? 6 ? 10 = 7 by inserting (/ * + -) operators.
1- Allow relocation of numbers.
2- No operator should be used more than once.
3- Operations left to right.

My solution:
use strict; use Algorithm::Combinatorics qw(variations); use feature ':5.10'; my @operators = qw(+ - * /); my @numbers = qw(9 -4 8 6 10); my $total = 7; #required result my $iter = variations(\@operators, 4); #get combinations for operators + without rep. my $iter2 = variations(\@numbers, 5); #get combinations for numbers w +ithout rep. while (my $p = $iter->next){ while (my $p2 = $iter2->next){ #escaping precedence my $eval = eval ("$p2->[0] $p->[0] $p2->[1]"); $eval = eval ("$eval $p->[1] $p2->[2]"); $eval = eval ("$eval $p->[2] $p2->[3]"); $eval = eval ("$eval $p->[3] $p2->[4]"); if ($eval == $total){ say "$p2->[0] ($p->[0]) $p2->[1] ($p->[1]) $p2->[2] ($p->[2]) $p2- +>[3] ($p->[3]) $p2->[4] = $total"; } } $iter2 = variations(\@numbers, 5); #Resets the iterator }

I hope this code sports good Perl practices.
Special thanks to MidLifeXis.

In reply to Automating solving missing Arithmetic operators by Swalif

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