Problem 22. Remove the vowels

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Submitted on 26 Jan 2012 by @bmtran (Bryant Tran)

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Tom on 11 Feb 2012

Wait... how is this:

s2 = regexprep(s1,'[aeiouAEIOU]','');

shorter than this?

s2 = s1(regexpi(s1,'[^aeiou]'));

Ben Ausdenmoore on 15 Apr 2012

@Tom
I believe it is because the regexpi would be the same as including the 'ignorecase' option from regexprep command (including that makes the size 15).

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Test	Status	Code Input and Output
1	Pass	%% s1 = 'Jack and Jill went up the hill'; s2 = 'Jck nd Jll wnt p th hll'; assert(isequal(s2,refcn(s1)))
2	Pass	%% s1 = 'I don''t want to work. I just want to bang on the drum all day.'; s2 = ' dn''t wnt t wrk. jst wnt t bng n th drm ll dy.'; assert(isequal(s2,refcn(s1)))

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Pass

%% s1 = 'Jack and Jill went up the hill'; s2 = 'Jck nd Jll wnt p th hll'; assert(isequal(s2,refcn(s1)))

Pass

%% s1 = 'I don''t want to work. I just want to bang on the drum all day.'; s2 = ' dn''t wnt t wrk. jst wnt t bng n th drm ll dy.'; assert(isequal(s2,refcn(s1)))

Problem 22. Remove the vowels

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