I was surprised seeing ton of people going for the replace approach.
It didn’t even cross my mind to edit the string, I went straight for regex for part 1 and it was easy enough to adapt it for part 2.
I did this exact thing and hit the point where it didn’t work. I appreciated that the problem broke my code because it made me arrive at a better solution.
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I was surprised seeing ton of people going for the replace approach. It didn’t even cross my mind to edit the string, I went straight for regex for part 1 and it was easy enough to adapt it for part 2.
I did this exact thing and hit the point where it didn’t work. I appreciated that the problem broke my code because it made me arrive at a better solution.