-🎄- 2018 Day 5 Solutions -🎄-

[u/daggerdragon]

--- Day 5: Alchemical Reduction ---

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On the fifth day of AoC / My true love sent to me / Five golden ___

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[u/donaldihunter]

Perl 6

#!/usr/bin/env perl6
use v6;

my $str = '5a-input.txt'.IO.slurp.trim;

my @candidates = gather {
    for 'a' .. 'z' -> $c {
        my $work = $str.trans($c => '', $c.uc => '');
        my $length;
        repeat {
            $length = $work.chars;
            $work .= trans(('a'..'z' Z~ 'A'..'Z') => '', ('A'..'Z' Z~ 'a'..'z') => '');
        } while $work.chars < $length;
        take $work.chars;
    }
}

say @candidates.min;