array_matching.py

#Have the function ArrayMatching(strArr) read the array of strings stored in strArr which will contain only two elements, 
#both of which will represent an array of positive integers. 
#For example: if strArr is ["[1, 2, 5, 6]", "[5, 2, 8, 11]"], 
#then both elements in the input represent two integer arrays, 
#and your goal for this challenge is to add the elements in corresponding locations from both arrays. 
#For the example input, your program should do the following additions: [(1 + 5), (2 + 2), (5 + 8), (6 + 11)] which then equals [6, 4, 13, 17]. 
#Your program should finally return this resulting array in a string format with each element separated by a hyphen: 6-4-13-17.

#If the two arrays do not have the same amount of elements, 
#then simply append the remaining elements onto the new array (example shown below). 
#Both arrays will be in the format: [e1, e2, e3, ...] where at least one element will exist in each array.

def ArrayMatching(strArr):
  arr1= eval(strArr[0])
  arr2= eval(strArr[1])
  result =[]
  min_len = min(len(arr1),len(arr2))
  for i in range(min_len):
    result.append(arr1[i]+arr2[i])
  if len(arr1)>min_len:
    result.extend(arr1[min_len:])
  if len(arr2)>min_len:
    result.extend(arr2[min_len:])

  

  # code goes here
  return "-".join(str(i) for i in result)

# keep this function call here 
print(ArrayMatching(input()))



def ArrayMatching(strArr):
  x = [int(i) for i in strArr[0][1:-1].split(',')]
  y = [int(i) for i in strArr[1][1:-1].split(',')]
  sums = []
  
  for i in range(max(len(x), len(y))):
    total = 0
    if i < len(x):
      total += x[i]
    if i < len(y):
      total += y[i]
    sums.append(str(total))
  return '-'.join(sums)
  
# keep this function call here 
print(ArrayMatching(input()))