tidied up code

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
index b3a1866f84..a42ad642c7 100644
--- a/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
+++ b/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ sub get_no_one_count_9 {
   while($n) {
     my $t   = $n % 10; ## get last digit
     $count  = 0 if $t==1; ## Throw everything away we've found a 1
-    $count += $t ? ( $t == 1 ? ($pow_9-1) : ($t-1)*$pow_9 ) : 0;
+    $count += !$t ? 0 : $t == 1 ? ($pow_9-1) : ($t-1)*$pow_9;
                           ## 0 it contributes nothing
                           ## 1 contributes 9^X-1
                           ## 2-9 contributes (n-1)9^X
diff --git a/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-2.pl
index 0b0900662c..195a1fbc6a 100644
--- a/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-2.pl
+++ b/challenge-126/james-smith/perl/ch-2.pl
@@ -11,24 +11,21 @@ use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
 my @grid = qw(x***x*xxxx *********x ****x*x*x* ***xx***** x***x****x);
 
 say join "\n",'',@grid,'';
-print solve(@grid);
+say solve(@grid);
 say '';
 
 sub solve {
-  my @res = ('');
-  ## Map input of strings into an array of 1s (bombs) + 0s (spaces)
-  my @in = map { [ map { $_ eq 'x' ? 1:0 } split //, $_ ] } @_;
+  my @res = ();
+  my @g = map { [ map { $_ eq 'x' ? 1 : 0 } split //, $_ ] } @_;
 
-  ## Get index of last row or column...
   my( $h, $w ) = ( $#_, -1 + length $_[0] );
-
   foreach my $y ( 0 .. $h ) {
-    $res[-1] .= $in[$y][$_] ? 'x' :
-     ( $y      ? ( $_ ? $in[$y-1][$_-1] : 0 ) + $in[$y-1][$_] + ( $_ < $w ? $in[$y-1][$_+1] : 0 ) : 0 ) +
-                 ( $_ ? $in[$y  ][$_-1] : 0 ) + $in[$y  ][$_] + ( $_ < $w ? $in[$y  ][$_+1] : 0 )       +
-     ( $y < $h ? ( $_ ? $in[$y+1][$_-1] : 0 ) + $in[$y+1][$_] + ( $_ < $w ? $in[$y+1][$_+1] : 0 ) : 0 ) foreach 0 .. $w;
-    push @res, '';
+    push @res, join '', map {
+      $g[$y][$_] ? 'x' :
+        ( $y    ? ( $_ ? $g[$y-1][$_-1] : 0 ) + $g[$y-1][$_] + ( $_<$w ? $g[$y-1][$_+1] : 0 ) : 0 ) +
+                  ( $_ ? $g[$y  ][$_-1] : 0 ) + $g[$y  ][$_] + ( $_<$w ? $g[$y  ][$_+1] : 0 )       +
+        ( $y<$h ? ( $_ ? $g[$y+1][$_-1] : 0 ) + $g[$y+1][$_] + ( $_<$w ? $g[$y+1][$_+1] : 0 ) : 0 )
+     } 0 .. $w;
   }
   return join "\n", @res;
 }
-