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+http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/329
diff --git a/challenge-329/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-329/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Blog: http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge
+
+use v5.26;    # The Weekly Challenge - 2025-07-07
+use utf8;     # Week 329 - task 1 - Counter integers
+use warnings; # Peter Campbell Smith
+binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
+use Encode;
+
+counter_integers('the1weekly2challenge2');
+counter_integers('go21od1lu5c7k');
+counter_integers('4p3e2r1l');
+
+# longer example
+my ($string, $chars);
+$chars .= $_ for ('a' .. 'z', '0' .. '9');
+$string .= substr($chars, int(rand(36)), 1) for 0 .. 499;
+counter_integers($string);
+
+sub counter_integers {
+	
+	my ($string, $result, $found);
+	
+	# initialise
+	$string = shift;
+	say qq[\nInput:  '$string'];
+	
+	# replace non-digit sequences with blanks
+	$string =~ s|[a-z]| |gi;
+	
+	# create result in original order
+	$result = ', ';
+	while ($string =~ m|(\d+)|g) {
+		$found = $1 + 0;
+		if ($result !~ m|, $found,|) {
+			$result .= qq[$found, ];
+		}
+	}
+	
+	# list them
+	say qq[Output: ] . substr($result, 2, -2);
+}
diff --git a/challenge-329/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-329/peter-campbell-smith/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Blog: http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge
+
+use v5.26;    # The Weekly Challenge - 2025-07-07
+use utf8;     # Week 329 - task 2 - Nice string
+use warnings; # Peter Campbell Smith
+binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
+use Encode;
+
+nice_string('YaaAho');
+nice_string('cC');
+nice_string('A');
+nice_string('ABCDEedcbaZABCDEedcbaa');
+
+# longer example
+my (@chars, $string);
+@chars = (('A' .. 'I'),('a' .. 'i'));
+$string .= $chars[int(rand(18))] for 0 .. 50;
+nice_string($string);
+
+sub nice_string {
+	
+	my ($string, $c, $best, $longest, $s, $t, $try);
+	
+	# initialise
+	$string = shift;
+	$c = length($string);
+	$best = '';
+	$longest = 0;
+	
+	# loop over starting points
+	for $s (0 .. $c - 2) {
+		
+		# loop up to remaining length
+		for $t (0 .. $c - $s) {
+			next unless $t >= $longest;
+			$try = substr($string, $s, $t);
+			
+			# nicest so far?
+			if (is_nice($try)) { 
+				$best = $try;
+				$longest = $t;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	
+	say qq[\nInput:  '$string'];
+	say qq[Output: '$best'];
+}
+
+sub is_nice {
+	
+	my ($string, @chars, $c, $C);
+	
+	# initialise
+	$string = shift;
+	@chars = split('', $string);
+	
+	# check for nicety
+	for $c (@chars) {
+		$C = $c gt 'Z' ? uc($c) : lc($c);
+		return 0 unless $string =~ m|$C|;
+	}
+	return 1;
+}