Robbie Hatley's Solutions, in Perl, for The Weekly Challenge #349 (“Power String” and “Meetings Point”)
For those not familiar with "The Weekly Challenge", it is a weekly programming puzzle with two parts, with a new pair of tasks each Monday. You can find it here: The Weekly Challenge The Weekly Challenge for the week of 2025-11-24 through 2025-11-30 is #349. The tasks for challenge #349 are as follows: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Task 349-1: Power String Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar You are given a string. Write a script to return the power of the given string. The power of the string is the maximum length of a non-empty substring that contains only one unique character. Example #1: Input: $str = "textbook" Output: 2 Breakdown: "t", "e", "x", "b", "oo", "k" The longest substring with one unique character is "oo". Example #2: Input: $str = "aaaaa" Output: 5 Example #3: Input: $str = "hoorayyy" Output: 3 Breakdown: "h"...
