Problem 31. Remove all the words that end with "ain"

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Aurelien Queffurust on 24 Feb 2012

This problem is fantastic to improve his knowledge with regular expressions!

Aditya Jain on 18 Oct 2016

I have rescored the leading problem to make sure its not zero

Pascal Wenger on 26 Feb 2017

I learned so much about the regexp and strjoin functions because of this problem. Thank you!

shahriar memaran on 15 Mar 2017

I agree... This problem improved my knowledge of regexp. Although my code is running well in my computer but not here. I'm using R2015a. Can anyone please help ! Thank you

Sanzhar Askaruly on 18 Jun 2019

Did it in two steps, so many functionality in regexp that I discovered for myself today.. )

Asif Newaz on 28 Oct 2019

nice problem..really nic

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Shlomo Geva on 30 Nov 2020

The problem is not well defined. In test 3 one can see that double quotes should be left alone.
As it is, solutions that only check single words in double quotes will be correctly handled, but not necessarily multiple words (sentence/s) enclosed in double quotes. An additional test should verify, for instance, that the following is correctly handled:

S1 = '"The rain in Spain"'

And of course there could be nested double quotes... A water tight definition is required her.

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Stone Liu on 12 Dec 2019

I think i should learn regular expression

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Sanzhar Askaruly on 18 Jun 2019

wow

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Mariana on 6 Jun 2019

Hi all, I just can't find out why the assertion fails. All works well on my MALTAB but not here. Both codes (commented and not) remove only the words which end with 'ain' and leave the two spaces but still the assertions here has failed.

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Eric Miller on 24 Oct 2017

This passes in R2017b, yet fails here. Why?

David Verrelli on 6 Nov 2017

Actually this code won't pass the Test Suite on any version of MATLAB. The misunderstanding is caused by rendering of HTML text on Cody, which means that double-spaces are not _displayed_ in the Test Suite's solutions; nevertheless, the correct solutions do contain double spaces, as you can confirm by viewing the HTML source, and as also explained in the problem statement. Your code is removing some spaces. I'm sure you can fix it now, with this knowledge.

Eric Miller on 6 Nov 2017

Thanks for clarifying. I appreciate it.

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Pavol on 26 Jun 2017

Probably not what i was supposed to do, but hey it works.

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Andrew Dobrovolc on 23 Jun 2017

I think something is broken, I passed it the s2 given in the test suite and the assertion still fails.

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auto2060 on 18 Oct 2016

Took me nearly one hour to solve (though not complete,for just "ain,it is wrong).But I think it's great.I recently learn regular expressions.

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Harish Maradana on 23 Aug 2014

regexprep(s1, '(\w*)ain', '')
not working pls help me

Diwakar on 23 Jul 2018

Hi harish, so the if you see the regexprep documentation, it will tell you when you execute, it will remove every word which contains the letters ain in the expression. You can verify this on your system. To solve this, you need to look for a way to use regexprep such that it only looks for the letters in the end of the word.

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Mehmet OZC on 2 Dec 2012

I have to admit that this solution is not general

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