Merge pull request #8962 from augiedb/challenge-240

Challenge 240 Completed

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diff --git a/challenge-240/augiedb/blog.txt b/challenge-240/augiedb/blog.txt
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+https://variousandsundry.com/an-attempt-to-simplify-fails-but-works/
diff --git a/challenge-240/augiedb/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-240/augiedb/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+##
+## Just wanted to highlight a one-line solution to the problem.
+## I'm not rigging up a main() and a series of tests.
+## Trust me; it works. =)
+##
+
+my @string = ("Perl", "Python", "Pascal");
+my $chk = "ppp";
+
+print $chk eq join('', map { lc( substr($_, 0, 1) ) } @string ) ? "True" : "False";
+
diff --git a/challenge-240/augiedb/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-240/augiedb/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl 
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+##
+##
+## The real solution to this challenge is
+## one line in the build_array() subroutine.
+##
+## Skip head to line 32 for that.
+##
+
+main( (0, 2, 1, 5, 3, 4) );
+main( (5, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) );
+
+sub main {
+
+	my @int = @_;
+
+	print "Input: ";
+	pretty_print_array( @int );
+	print "Output: ";
+	pretty_print_array( build_array( @int ) );
+	print "\n";
+
+}
+
+sub build_array {
+
+	my @int = @_;
+
+	return map{ $int[$_] } @int;
+
+}
+
+sub pretty_print_array {
+
+        my @array = @_;
+        my $length = scalar @array;
+        my $count = 1;
+
+        print "(";
+
+        foreach my $value(@array) {
+                print $value;
+                print ", " if $count < $length;
+                $count++;
+        }
+
+        print ")\n";
+
+        return;
+}
+
+
+