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Convert a phrase to its acronym.
Techies love their TLA (Three Letter Acronyms)!
Help generate some jargon by writing a program that converts a long name like Portable Network Graphics to its acronym (PNG).
Punctuation is handled as follows: hyphens are word separators (like whitespace); all other punctuation can be removed from the input.
For example:
| Input | Output |
|---|---|
| As Soon As Possible | ASAP |
| Liquid-crystal display | LCD |
| Thank George It's Friday! | TGIF |
Try to find a way to split up a String and then iterate over the resulting sections to output a result.
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We take a gentle dive into regular expressions starting with basic whitespace matching, exploring unicode, and ending with negative lookbehinds. We finish off by looking at some other approaches to Acronym including state machines.
