From 391ee8c2cea795def2e7de40794d8e4684c94a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruben Westerberg <drclaw@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 05:51:33 +1000
Subject: Updated solution to use raku built in base handling

Just needed to look a little deeper!
---
 challenge-043/ruben-westerberg/raku/ch-2.p6 | 36 +++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/challenge-043/ruben-westerberg/raku/ch-2.p6 b/challenge-043/ruben-westerberg/raku/ch-2.p6
index 3b3d6f6168..6fe5caa108 100755
--- a/challenge-043/ruben-westerberg/raku/ch-2.p6
+++ b/challenge-043/ruben-westerberg/raku/ch-2.p6
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env perl6
 
-my $base=@*ARGS[0]||4;
-my $i=baseToDec($base,"1"~"0"x($base-1));
-my $num=decToBase($base,$i);
+my $base=(@*ARGS[0]||4).Int;
+my $i=("1"~"0"x($base-1)).parse-base($base);
+my $num=$i.base($base);
 my @found;
 my $run=True;
 signal(SIGINT).tap({say "Stopping search"; $run=False;});
@@ -18,37 +18,13 @@ while ($run) {
 		put "NO: $num";
 	}
 	$i++;
-	$num=decToBase($base,$i);
+	$num=$i.base($base);
 	last if $num.chars > $base;
 }
 say "Found Self Describing Numbers:";
 say $_ for @found;
 
 
-
-
-sub baseToDec ($base,$value) {
-	my $sum=0;
-	for $value.comb.reverse {
-		state $i=0;
-		$sum+=$base**$i++*$_;
-	}
-	$sum;
-}
-
-sub decToBase ($base,$decIn) {
-	return "0" if $decIn==0;
-	my $dec=$decIn;
-	my $rem;
-	my $result="";
-	while $dec {
-		$rem=$dec%$base;
-		$result~=$rem <= 9??$rem!!chr(55+$rem);	
-		$dec=Int($dec/$base);
-	}
-	$result.flip;
-}
-
 sub test ($base,$nString) {
 	return False if $nString.chars != $base;
 	my $res=1;
@@ -56,8 +32,8 @@ sub test ($base,$nString) {
 	my $i=0;	
 	for @digits -> $d {
 		my $count=@digits.grep({$_ eq $i});
-		my $bcount=decToBase($base,$count);	
-		$res&&=(decToBase($base,$count) eq $d);
+		my $bcount=$count.Int.base($base);
+		$res&&=($count.Int.base($base) eq $d);
 		last unless $res;
 		$i++;
 	}
-- 
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