Robbie Hatley’s Solutions, in Perl, for The Weekly Challenge #383 (“Similar List” and “Nearest RGB”)
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 2026-07-20 through 2026-07-26 is #383. If anyone is wondering what happened to 377 through 382, I've been quite busy the last two months adjusting to my life as a "newly-retired person", so I haven't had the attention for The Perl Weekly Challenge Club. But after a 42-day absence, I'm back! I may eventually solve the skipped challenges and post my results here, but for now, here is Challenge 383. The tasks for challenge #383 are as follows: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Task 383-1: Similar List Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar You are given two lists of strings and a list of "similar-words groups". Write a script to find out if the two word lists are "similar" with the help ...