Confirmed. Thanks. Was C# 12 added to Codwars last month (Nov '24)?

https://www.codewars.com/post/whats-new-on-codewars-november-2024

The OP wrote this question 5 months ago. I wanted to share the idea of identity-functions as an FP practice to anyone interested.

Order should be already available on CW for kata which have been migrated to C# 12.

Anyone remiss about not having Order can use OrderBy instead with an identity-function as the key-selector.

int[] items = { 4, 1, 3, 2 };

var sorted = items.OrderBy(x => x); // prior to .NET 7
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", sorted)); // 1, 2, 3, 4

var sorted2 = items.Order(); // available after .NET 7
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", sorted2)); // 1, 2, 3, 4

If you are so inclined, you can dig as deeply as you like into the implementations and overloads of these Order/OrderBy methods with the source that MS provides online. Be aware that Microsoft has gone to great lengths to make these perform well. Older, simpler implementations are available at Microsoft's reference-source site -- but these are frozen in time and won't include the latest things like this Order extension.

at the bottom of the documentation for Order(), it is written:

Applies to: .NET 9 and other versions: .NET 7, 8, 9

checking .NET version on Codewars:

Console.WriteLine(RuntimeInformation.FrameworkDescription); // .NET 6.0.16

You're likely looking for the OrderBy method instead.

If you Google "linq order enumerable" you'll find this kind of information easily :)

Your code runs on your pc, in Java I suppose? toString and toCharArray are Java method names, not C#. Please have a look at C# reference guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.int64.tostring?view=net-8.0

may you send your code

Is it just efficiency or is it that you've made the nature of the random tests completely different from the basic? For example, the random arrays have some with 2,1,1 of the same element. You put no such examples in the basic and wrote nothing of what should be done in that scenario in the description. EDIT: Okay I solved it, forgive me for questioning your infinite wisdom ;)

Read other posts about it, it's a floating point representation problem.

I agree, this seems broken.

The most challening task is to be able to detect a pattern. If the string is split into smaller pieces and these pieces are consecutive to eachother you might have found a pattern. Once you have the pattern you can calculate the position of the first number of the pattern. I am trying to help without spoling the kata.

By the way, myjinxin2015, this is one of the mosy singular and challenging katas I have done. Congratulations. Keep it up!

I solved the JavaScript one just now. No problems. NB: there is no need to repeat the same comment 3 times.

Perhaps you can starting from this kata, which is simpler one:
https://www.codewars.com/kata/challenge-fun-number-8-numbers-concatenation/discuss#5abccc77a88ee7496a0000cb