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+#!/usr/bin/perl 
+#===============================================================================
+#
+#         FILE: ch_2.pl
+#
+#        USAGE: ./ch_2.pl  
+#
+#  DESCRIPTION: https://perlweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-080/
+#               Challenge #1
+#               Count Candies
+#
+#       AUTHOR: Lubos Kolouch
+#===============================================================================
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use List::Util qw/uniq/;
+
+sub get_candle_count {
+    my $arr = shift;
+
+    # We need to give 1 candy to everyone
+    my $count = scalar @$arr;
+
+    # and then find out number of unique elements as they will be certainly
+    # bigger than neighbor... -1 (the initial poor one)
+
+    $count += scalar uniq @$arr;
+    $count--;
+
+    return $count;
+
+
+}
+
+use Test::More;
+
+is(get_candle_count([1, 2, 2]), 4);
+is(get_candle_count([1, 4, 3, 2]), 7);
+
+done_testing;