Perl Weekly Challenge 183: arrays and days

It is sad that, after more than three years of me doing Raku, I still don’t have any production code project to work on. Therefore, in order to keep my coding and Raku-ing (is that a term?) knowdledge, I try to solve every Perl Weekly Challenge tasks.

In the following, the assigned tasks for Challenge 183.

• Task 1
• Task 2

and for the sake of some Perl 5, let’s do some stuff also in PostgreSQL Pl/Perl:

• Task 1 in PostgreSQL Pl/Perl
• Task 2 in PostgreSQL Pl/Perl

Last, the solutions in PostgreSQL PL/PgSQL:

• Task 1 in PostgreSQL Pl/PgSQL
• Task 2 in PostgreSQL Pl/PgSQL

PWC 183 - Task 1

Piece of cake!
Given a list of array references, discard those that are the same array. The good thing is that the /smart match/ operator will do the job for us. So I keep a @clear list and do a nested loop to see if a given array is the same as another one, and if it is I keep looping, otherwise I push the found array reference into my clear list.

sub MAIN() {
    my @list = [1,2], [3,4], [5,6], [1,2];
    my @clear;

    for 0 ..^ @list.elems -> $left {
        my $found = False;
        for $left ^..^ @list.elems -> $right {
            $found = True and last if @list[ $left ] ~~ @list[ $right ];
        }

        next if $found;
        @clear.push: @list[ $left ] if ! $found;
    }

    @clear.join( ',' ).gist.say;
}

PWC 183 - Task 2

Given two /YYYY-MM-DD/ dates, compute the difference in years and days.
The good news here is that Date provides a daycount emthod that coutns the days from the epoch, so it just suffice to get the difference in days, and round it up to years and the remaining as days.

sub MAIN( Str $begin-date where { / \d ** 4 '-' \d ** 2 '-' \d ** 2 / }
          , Str $end-date where { / \d ** 4 '-' \d ** 2 '-' \d ** 2 / } ) {

    my @dates = Date.new( $begin-date )
                , Date.new( $end-date );

    my $days = abs( @dates[ 0 ].daycount - @dates[ 1 ].daycount );
    my $years = $days >= 365 ?? ($days / 365).Int !! 0;
    $days = $days >= 365 ?? $days % 365 !! $days;

    "$begin-date - $end-date = $years years and $days days".say;
}

PWC 183 - Task 1 in PostgreSQL PL/Perl

Here there’s some more work to see if arrays are the same in depth, but the overall approach is the same as in the Raku solution.



Note that I need to return an array reference for the PostgreSQL-Perl machinery to convert a Perl array into a PostgreSQL array.

PWC 183 - Task 2 in PostgreSQL PL/Perl

Similarly to the Raku approach, I use DateTime to get the number of days of difference between two dates and then round up as years and remaining days. The result is spurt as an array, where the first value is the number of years, and the second value is the number of days.

PWC 183 - Task 1 in PostgreSQL PL/PgSQL

Uhm, PostgreSQL does not have array references, so I simply invoke the PL/Perl function as a placeholder for the solution.

PWC 183 - Task 2 in PostgreSQL PL/PgSQL

Here it does suffice to do a simple subtraction to get the days as a date difference, and then I can simply return an array where the first element is the number of years, and the second is the number of remaining days.