Solve PWC323

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diff --git a/challenge-323/wlmb/blog.txt b/challenge-323/wlmb/blog.txt
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+https://wlmb.github.io/2025/05/26/PWC323/
diff --git a/challenge-323/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-323/wlmb/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# Perl weekly challenge 323
+# Task 1:
+#
+# See https://wlmb.github.io/2025/05/26/PWC323/#task-1-
+use v5.36;
+die <<~"FIN" unless @ARGV;
+    Usage: $0 E1 E2...
+    to apply increment and decrement expressions ~En~
+    of the form ++x, x++ --x, x--
+    where x is the name of a variable
+    FIN
+my %vars;
+for(@ARGV){
+    $vars{$1}//=0, $vars{$1}++, next if /^\+\+([[:alpha:]]+)$/;
+    $vars{$1}//=0, $vars{$1}--, next if /^--([[:alpha:]]+)$/;
+    $vars{$1}//=0, $vars{$1}++, next if /^([[:alpha:]]+)\+\+$/;
+    $vars{$1}//=0, $vars{$1}--, next if /^([[:alpha:]]+)--$/;
+    die "Wrong format: $_";
+}
+print "@ARGV -> ";
+print "$_=$vars{$_} " for keys %vars;
+print "\n";
diff --git a/challenge-323/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-323/wlmb/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# Perl weekly challenge 323
+# Task 2:  Tax Amount
+#
+# See https://wlmb.github.io/2025/05/26/PWC323/#task-2-tax-amount
+use v5.36;
+use List::Util qw(min);
+die <<~"FIN" unless @ARGV && @ARGV%2==1;
+    Usage: $0 I M1 P1 M2 P2...
+    to compute taxes corresponding to income I where Mn is the maximum
+    income in bracket n which is taxed with a percentage Pn
+    FIN
+my $income = shift;
+my $low = 0; # lowest bound of current bracket
+my @tax;
+my $result=0;
+my $remaining = $income;
+for my ($high, $percentage)(@ARGV){
+    push @tax, [$high, $percentage];
+    my $range=$high-$low;
+    $low=$high; # update for next iteration
+    next if $remaining < 0;
+    my $taxable = min($remaining, $range);
+    $result += $taxable*$percentage/100;
+    $remaining -= $taxable;
+}
+say "income=$income, tax=", join(", ", map{"[@$_]"} @tax)," -> $result";