Problem 31. Remove all the words that end with "ain"
Given the string s1, return the string s2 with the target characters removed.
For example, given
s1 = 'the main event'
your code would return
s2 = 'the event'
Note the 2 spaces between "main" and "event" Only the four letters in the word "main" were deleted.
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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
Did it in two steps, so many functionality in regexp that I discovered for myself today.. )
nice problem..really nic
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