Weekly Challenge 372

Each week Mohammad S. Anwar sends out The Weekly Challenge , a chance for all of us to come up with solutions to two weekly tasks. My solutions are written in Python first, and then converted to Perl. Unless otherwise stated, Copilot (and other AI tools) have NOT been used to generate the solution. It's a great way for us all to practice some coding.

Challenge , My solutions

Task 1: Rearrange Spaces

Task

You are given a string text of words that are placed among number of spaces.

Write a script to rearrange the spaces so that there is an equal number of spaces between every pair of adjacent words and that number is maximized. If you can’t distribute, place the extra spaces at the end. Finally return the string.

My solution

This is a little more straight forward than last weeks challenge one task. For this task, I take start by separating the words on whitespace, and count the number of spaces.…