Problem 2440. Text processing - Help Johnny write a letter home from camp
Johnny overuses the word 'great'. Write a script that will help him with this and future letters. If a sentence contains more than one occurrence of 'great', replace the second occurrence with 'awesome'.
textIn = strcat('I am having a great time at summer camp. The camp', ...
' counselors are great and the activities are great. Monday', ...
' we went kayaking and Tuesday we learned archery. Archery was', ...
' great and I hit the bull''s eye which everyone was said was', ...
' really great. -Love Johnny');
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Jan Orwat
on 16 Jul 2014
Hey Dave! It would be awesome, if there was sentences with more than 2 'great' or words like 'greater'.
J.R.! Menzinger
on 21 Jul 2014
Definitively I must learn MORE regexp... :-/ I knew what to do, but I couldn't implement it.
Dyuman Joshi
on 21 Oct 2022
A test case has been added as per Jan Orwat's suggestion.
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