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diff --git a/challenge-267/mattneleigh/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-267/mattneleigh/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use English;
+
+################################################################################
+# Begin main execution
+################################################################################
+
+my @integer_lists = (
+    [ -1, -2, -3, -4, 3, 2, 1 ],
+    [ 1, 2, 0, -2, -1 ],
+    [ -1, -1, 1, -1, 2 ]
+);
+
+print("\n");
+foreach my $integer_list (@integer_lists){
+    printf(
+        "Input: \@ints = (%s)\nOutput: %d\n\n",
+        join(", ", @{$integer_list}),
+        list_product_sign(@{$integer_list})
+    );
+}
+
+exit(0);
+################################################################################
+# End main execution; subroutines follow
+################################################################################
+
+
+
+################################################################################
+# Determine the sign of the product that would result from multiplying
+# together all members of a list of integers
+# Takes one argument:
+# * A list of integers to examine (e.g. ( -1, -2, -3, -4, 3, 2, 1 ) )
+# Returns:
+# * -1 if the sign of the product would be negative
+# * 0 if the product would be zero
+# * 1 if the sign of the product would be positive
+################################################################################
+sub list_product_sign{
+
+    my $negatives = 0;
+
+    foreach my $int (@ARG){
+        # If an int is zero, the product of the list
+        # will be zero
+        return(0)
+            unless($int);
+
+        # Increment the negative count if this int
+        # is below zero
+        $negatives++
+            if($int < 0);
+    }
+
+    return(
+        $negatives % 2 ?
+            # Negative count is odd- product would be
+            # negative
+            -1
+            :
+            # Negative count is even- product would be
+            # positive
+            1
+    );
+
+}
+
+
+
diff --git a/challenge-267/mattneleigh/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-267/mattneleigh/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use English;
+
+################################################################################
+# Begin main execution
+################################################################################
+
+my @text_definitions = (
+    [
+        "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
+        [
+            10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
+            10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
+            10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
+        ]
+    ],
+    [
+        "bbbcccdddaaa",
+        [
+             4, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
+            10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
+            10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
+        ]
+    ]
+);
+
+print("\n");
+foreach my $text_definition (@text_definitions){
+    printf(
+        "Input: \$str = \"%s\"\n       \@widths = (%s)\nOutput: (%s)\n\n",
+        $text_definition->[0],
+        join(", ", @{$text_definition->[1]}),
+        join(", ", count_displayed_lines($text_definition))
+    );
+}
+
+exit(0);
+################################################################################
+# End main execution; subroutines follow
+################################################################################
+
+
+
+################################################################################
+# Given a string of text and a table of letter widths, in pixels, determine
+# how many lines of text would be required to display the string, and how many
+# pixels are required to display the last line
+# Takes one argument:
+# * A ref to an array that contains the string to examine and a table of 26
+#   letter widths, in pixels, representing characters a-z (e.g.
+#      [
+#          "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
+#          [
+#              10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
+#              10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,
+#              10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
+#          ]
+#      ]
+#   )
+# Returns:
+# * A list containing the number of lines required to display the provided
+#   text, and the number of pixels required to display the last line (e.g.
+#   ( 3, 60 ) )
+################################################################################
+sub count_displayed_lines{
+
+    my $line_width = 0;
+    my $lines = 1;
+
+    # An edge case- if the string is zero length,
+    # there will be no lines and zero pixels
+    return(0, 0)
+        unless(length($ARG[0][0]));
+
+    # Loop over each character
+    foreach my $char (split("", $ARG[0][0])){
+        # Get the character's widgh from the table
+        # using its ordinal position relative to 'a'
+        my $char_width = $ARG[0][1][ord(lc($char)) - 97];
+
+        if(($line_width + $char_width) > 100){
+            # This character won't fit on the line-
+            # increment line count and reset line width to
+            # the character's width
+            $lines++;
+            $line_width = $char_width;
+        } else{
+            # This character fits on the line- add its
+            # width
+            $line_width += $char_width;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return($lines, $line_width);
+
+}
+
+
+