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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+#
+=head1 Task 1: Twice Appearance
+
+Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar
+
+You are given a string, $str, containing lowercase English letters only.
+
+Write a script to print the first letter that appears twice.
+
+=head2 Example 1
+
+	Input: $str = "acbddbca"
+	Output: "d"
+
+=head2 Example 2
+
+	Input: $str = "abccd"
+	Output: "c"
+
+=head2 Example 3
+
+	Input: $str = "abcdabbb"
+	Output: "a"
+
+=cut
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Test2::V0 -no_srand => 1;
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+my $cases = [
+	['acbddbca', 'd', 'Example 1'],
+	['abccd',    'c', 'Example 2'],
+	['abcdabbb', 'a', 'Example 3'],
+];
+
+sub twice_apperance
+{
+	my $str = shift;
+
+	my %h;
+	for my $c (split //, $str) {
+		if (defined $h{$c}) {
+			return $c;
+		} else {
+			$h{$c} = 1;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+for (@$cases) {
+    is(twice_apperance($_->[0]), $_->[1], $_->[2]);
+}
+done_testing();
+
+exit 0;
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+#
+=head1 Task 2: Count Asterisks
+
+Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar
+
+You are given a string, $str, where every two consecutive vertical bars are
+grouped into a pair.
+
+Write a script to return the number of asterisks, *, excluding any between each
+pair of vertical bars.
+
+=head2 Example 1
+
+	Input: $str = "p|*e*rl|w**e|*ekly|"
+	Ouput: 2
+
+The characters we are looking here are "p" and "w**e".
+
+=head2 Example 2
+
+	Input: $str = "perl"
+	Ouput: 0
+
+=head2 Example 3
+
+	Input: $str = "th|ewe|e**|k|l***ych|alleng|e"
+	Ouput: 5
+
+The characters we are looking here are "th", "e**", "l***ych" and "e".
+
+=cut
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Test2::V0 -no_srand => 1;
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+
+my $cases = [
+	['p|*e*rl|w**e|*ekly|',           2, 'Example 1'],
+	['perl',                          0, 'Example 2'],
+	['th|ewe|e**|k|l***ych|alleng|e', 5, 'Example 3'],
+];
+
+sub count_asterisks
+{
+	my $str = shift;
+
+	my @str = split(/\|/, $str);
+	$str = join '', @str[grep { not $_ % 2 } 0 .. $#str];
+	return $str =~ tr/*//;
+}
+
+for (@$cases) {
+    is(count_asterisks($_->[0]), $_->[1], $_->[2]);
+}
+done_testing();
+
+exit 0;
+