sgreen solutions to challenge 080

4 files changed, 70 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-080/sgreen/README.md b/challenge-080/sgreen/README.md
index 356818eca9..520da30452 100644
--- a/challenge-080/sgreen/README.md
+++ b/challenge-080/sgreen/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-# The Weekly Challenge 079
+# The Weekly Challenge 080
 
-Solution by Simon Green. [Blog](https://dev.to/simongreennet/the-weekly-challenge-079-1jel)
+Solution by Simon Green. [Blog](https://dev.to/simongreennet/the-weekly-challenge-080-2if0)
diff --git a/challenge-080/sgreen/blog.txt b/challenge-080/sgreen/blog.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b808db63e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-080/sgreen/blog.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+https://dev.to/simongreennet/the-weekly-challenge-080-2if0
diff --git a/challenge-080/sgreen/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-080/sgreen/perl/ch-1.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..7127322050
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-080/sgreen/perl/ch-1.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use feature 'say';
+
+sub main {
+    my @input = @_;
+
+    # Sanity checks
+    die "You must supply one or more integers\n" unless @input;
+    foreach (@input) {
+        die "The vale '$_' is not an integer\n" unless /^-?[0-9]+$/;
+    }
+
+    # Put the values in a hash for faster look up
+    my %seen = ( map { $_, undef } @input );
+
+    # Count from one until we find a value that is not in %seen
+    my $result = 1;
+    $result++ while exists $seen{$result};
+
+    # Display the result
+    say $result;
+}
+
+main(@ARGV);
diff --git a/challenge-080/sgreen/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-080/sgreen/perl/ch-2.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5510cc23ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-080/sgreen/perl/ch-2.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use feature qw(say);
+
+use List::Util qw(max sum);
+
+sub main {
+    my @scores = @_;
+
+    # Sanity checks
+    die "You must supply one or more integers\n" unless @scores;
+    foreach (@scores) {
+        die "The vale '$_' is not an integer\n" unless /^-?[0-9]+$/;
+    }
+
+    my @lollies = ();
+    foreach my $col ( 0 .. $#scores ) {
+        # If this score is higher than the previous score, add one to it.
+        # Otherwise, start with 1.
+        my $left = $col != 0
+          && $scores[$col] > $scores[ $col - 1 ] ? $lollies[ $col - 1 ] + 1 : 1;
+
+        # Likewise, calculate the number of successive increases to the
+        # right (or 1 if there are none).
+        my $right = 1;
+        foreach my $col_right ( $col .. $#scores - 1 ) {
+            last if $scores[$col_right] <= $scores[ $col_right + 1 ];
+            ++$right;
+        }
+
+        # The number of lollies, is the greater of the two values.
+        push @lollies, max( $left, $right );
+    }
+
+    say 'Result is ', sum(@lollies), ' (', join( ', ', @lollies ), ')';
+}
+
+main(@ARGV);