Merge pull request #2613 from wanderdoc/master

Solution to task #1 challenge-083.

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+#!perl
+use strict;
+use warnings FATAL => qw(all);
+
+=prompt
+You are given a string $S with 3 or more words. Write a script to find the length of the string except the first and last words ignoring whitespace.
+Example 1: Input: $S = "The Weekly Challenge" Output: 6
+Example 2: Input: $S = "The purpose of our lives is to be happy" Output: 23
+=cut
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+use List::Util qw(reduce);
+use Test::More;
+
+sub words_length
+{
+     my $string = $_[0];
+     my @words = split(/\s+/, $string);
+
+     shift @words;
+
+     pop @words;
+
+     my $length = reduce {$a + $b} map length, @words;
+     return $length;
+}
+
+is(words_length("The Weekly Challenge"), 6, 'Example 1');
+is(words_length("The purpose of our lives is to be happy"), 23, 'Example 1');
+done_testing();
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