Problem 82. Remove the small words from a list of words.

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Your job is to tidy up a list of words that appear in a string. The words are separated by one or more spaces. Remove all words that are one or two letters long and make sure that exactly one space separates all the words. Strings will be made up only of letters and spaces. Spaces should not appear at the beginning or end of your output string.

Example:

 inStr =  'ours is  not to   reason why';
 outStr = 'ours not reason why';

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Khaled Hamed on 3 Aug 2012

This problem is tricky! Better add more test cases and rescore. E.g., 'aaa bb'

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Rohith PK on 12 Feb 2020

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Test Status Code Input and Output
1 Fail
inStr = 'ours is not to reason why';
outStr_correct = 'ours not reason why';
assert(isequal(remove_small_words(inStr),outStr_correct))
outStr =

'ours not reason why'
Assertion failed.
2 Fail
inStr = 'To be or not to be That is the question';
outStr_correct = 'not That the question';
assert(isequal(remove_small_words(inStr),outStr_correct))
outStr =

'not That the question'
Assertion failed.
3 Fail
inStr = ' He is a dirty so and so';
outStr_correct = 'dirty and';
assert(isequal(remove_small_words(inStr),outStr_correct))
outStr =

'dirty and '
Assertion failed.
4 Pass
inStr = 'oh me oh my';
outStr_correct = '';
assert(isequal(remove_small_words(inStr),outStr_correct))
outStr =

0×0 empty char array

what is wrong withthe assertion here?

Solution 1317228

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Stephen Cook on 27 Oct 2017

Not sure, why this fails, passes on my local MATLAB (version 8.3.0.532 (R2014a))

Solution 298525

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Jan Orwat on 8 Aug 2013

this won't work correctly for ' aaa '

Solution 14584

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Matt Fig on 30 Jan 2012

This won't always work.

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