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diff --git a/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Perl Weekly Challenge - 098
+# - https://perlweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-098/
+#
+# Task 1 - Read N-characters
+#
+# Author: Niels 'PerlBoy' van Dijke
+
+BEGIN {
+  use File::Basename qw(dirname);
+  chdir(dirname($0));
+}
+
+use v5.16;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use lib '.';
+
+use readN qw(readN);
+
+# Unbuffered STDOUT
+$|++;
+
+
+@ARGV = qw(1 input1.txt input2.txt) 
+  unless scalar(@ARGV);
+
+my $len = shift @ARGV // 4;
+my %files = map {$_ => 1} @ARGV;
+
+do {
+  foreach my $file (sort keys %files) {
+    my $s = readN($file, $len);
+    if (defined $s) {
+      printf "$file |%s|\n", $s;
+    } else {
+      delete $files{$file};
+    }
+  }
+} while (scalar(keys %files) > 0);
+
diff --git a/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Perl Weekly Challenge - 098
+# - https://perlweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-098/
+#
+# Task 2 - Search Insert Position
+#
+# Author: Niels 'PerlBoy' van Dijke
+
+use v5.16;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use List::MoreUtils qw(firstidx);
+
+# Unbuffered STDOUT
+$|++;
+
+while (<DATA>) {
+  chomp;
+
+  my ($N, @N) = split(/,/);
+  @N = sort(@N);
+
+  my $idx = firstidx { $_ >= $N } @N;
+  $idx = scalar(@N)
+    if ($idx < 0);
+
+  printf "Input: \@N = (%s) and \$N = %d\n", join(',', @N), $N;
+  printf "Output: %d\n\n", $idx;
+} 
+ 
+__DATA__
+3,1,3,2,4
+6,1,7,5,3
+10,14,12,16,18
+19,15,13,11,17
diff --git a/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/input1.txt b/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/input1.txt
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+12345
+abcde
diff --git a/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/input2.txt b/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/input2.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+12
diff --git a/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/readN.pm b/challenge-098/perlboy1967/perl/readN.pm
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Perl Weekly Challenge - 098
+# - https://perlweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-098/
+#
+# Task 1 - Read N-characters
+#
+# Author: Niels 'PerlBoy' van Dijke
+
+package readN;
+
+use v5.16;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT);
+use Time::HiRes qw(usleep);
+
+require Exporter;
+our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
+our @EXPORT = qw(readN);
+
+my %FH;
+my %EOF;
+
+sub readN ($$) {
+  my ($fileName, $length) = @_;
+
+  # Close the file when eof is reached
+  if (exists $EOF{$fileName}) {
+    delete $FH{$fileName};
+    delete $EOF{$fileName};
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if (!exists ($FH{$fileName})) {
+    sysopen($FH{$fileName}, $fileName, O_RDONLY) //
+      die "Can't open '$fileName' ($!)";
+    binmode($FH{$fileName});
+  }
+
+  my $return;
+  my $retry = 10;
+  do {
+    my $buf;
+    my $nread = sysread($FH{$fileName}, $buf, $length);
+    if (!defined $nread) {
+      $retry--; usleep 1_000;
+    } elsif ($nread == 0) {
+      $EOF{$fileName}++;
+    } elsif ($nread <= $length) {
+      $return .= $buf;
+    }
+  } while (!exists  $EOF{$fileName} and length($return // '') != $length and $retry);
+
+  return $return;
+}
+
+1;