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Perl Weekly Challenge 61: maximum products and IPv4 20 May 2020

I’ve been doing the Perl Weekly Challenges. The latest involved searching for the maximum product in a sequence, and un-munging IPv4 addresses.

Given a list of 4 or more numbers, write a script to find the contiguous sublist that has the maximum product. The length of the sublist is irrelevant; your job is to maximize the product.

Example

Input: [ 2, 5, -1, 3 ]

Output: [ 2, 5 ] which gives maximum product 10.

Why?

This combines two things for which I already have standard patterns: "doubly iterate over a list" and "keep the maximum value and the parameters used to generate it". All quite straightforward.

my ($mxp,$a,$b);

foreach my $ai (0..$#list) {
  foreach my $bi ($ai..$#list) {
    my $p=1;
    map {$p*=$_} @list[$ai..$bi];
    if (!defined $mxp || $p > $mxp) {
      ($mxp,$a,$b)=($p,$ai,$bi);
    }
  }
}

print join(' * ',@list[$a..$b]),' = ',$mxp,"\n";

Raku differs only in details of syntax.

You are given a string containing only digits (0..9). The string should have between 4 and 12 digits.

Write a script to print every possible valid IPv4 address that can be made by partitioning the input string.

For the purpose of this challenge, a valid IPv4 address consists of four “octets” i.e. A, B, C and D, separated by dots (.).

Each octet must be between 0 and 255, and must not have any leading zeroes. (e.g., 0 is OK, but 01 is not.)

Example

Input: 25525511135,

Output:

255.255.11.135

255.255.111.35

And this ends up being a standard search with ring buffer. Each entry consists of the octets approved so far, and any remaining matter at the end. The remaining matter is parsed to see if a new octet can be extract from it.

my @buf=([$in]);
while (my $t=shift @buf) {
  my @l=@{$t};
  my $r=pop @l;
  if ($r eq '' && scalar @l == 4) {
    print join('.',@l),"\n";
  }
  if (scalar @l >= 4) {
    next;
  }
  foreach my $fl (1..min(3,length($r))) {
    my $a=substr($r,0,$fl);

One could do this bit with regular expressions, but this seemed cleaner: the number is not greater than 255, and either it's zero or it doesn't start with a zero.

    if ($a <= 255 && ($a==0 || $a =~ /^[1-9]/)) {
      my $b=substr($r,$fl);
      push @buf,[@l,substr($r,0,$fl),$b];
    }
  }
}

I didn't do this one in Raku - that whole list-of-lists thing is a pain, because the language keeps trying to be clever and infer what I want. If I used Raku for anything other than these challenges, I'd settle down and work out just how to get a plain old mutable list of mutable lists with no sugar involved… but I don't, because while parts of the language are great fun to use it's so curst slow as soon as it gets down to anything useful.

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