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Challenge Description

Are you the very best PowerShell user?

Solution

# 1
$answer = For ($i=1; $i -le 1337; $i++) {
    if ($i % 42 -eq 0){
        Write-Output("Life, the universe, and everything")
    }else{
        Write-Output($i)
    }
}
$answer | check


# 2
$answer = ForEach($word In $(Get-Content ./dictionary | Sort-Object  {$_.Length}, {$_.ToString()})) {
     if($word.Length -gt 1){
        $scrabble_chars = "iydhlao"
        $match = 1
        ForEach($char in $word.ToCharArray()){
            if(!($scrabble_chars.Contains($char))){
                $match = 0
            }
            $scrabble_chars = $scrabble_chars -replace $char,""
        }
        if ($match){
            Write-Output([string]$word)
        }
    }
}
$answer | check


# 3
$answer = Import-Csv -Delimiter "`t" ./passwords.tsv | Group-Object category | Sort-Object @{Expression = "Count"; Descending = $True} | Select-Object Count,Name
$answer | check


# 4
$answer  = Import-Csv -Delimiter "`t" ./passwords.tsv | Sort-Object {$_.Password.Length}, {$_.Password} | Where-Object category -EQ "names" | Select-Object Password
$answer | check