Advanced exercises
Enter a regexp that matches words per the instructions. Example of words which should be matched are given below the instructions. The answer is accepted only if all example words are matched, but at the same time words not belonging to the group are not. For example, the asnwer
.*
in the first exercise will not be accepted, because while it does match all 5-character words, it also matches words containing 2 characters or 10 characters.
Exercise 1
Match possessive nouns both in singular and plural.
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student's |
students' |
sister's |
countries' |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 2
Match possessive nouns created from proper nouns, i.e. starting with a capital letter.
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John's |
Hanna's |
Dicken's |
Edward's |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 3
Match words containing the string 'blah' at least twice.
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blahblah |
blahblahblah |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 4
Match URLs from the .org domain.
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https://www.myblog345.org |
http://www.thiISbeautiful.org |
https://www.beauty&fashion.org |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 5
Match phone numbers starting with the country code +420.
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+420 437 175 706 |
+420 284 266 499 |
+420 773 230 265 |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 6
Match words starting with a number.
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3rd |
3D |
18th |
1st |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 7
Match words starting with co- such as the following:
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co-founder |
coworker |
co-author |
co-ordinator |
co-investigator |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 8
Match words describing ideology/system starting with anti-.
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anti-racism |
anti-terrorism |
anti-capitalism |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 9
Match words consisting of the same letter repeating exactly 3 times.
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AAA |
www |
xxx |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION
Exercise 10
Match words containing three characters, where the first and last character are the same.
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eye |
mom |
pop |
did |
WELL DONE!
INCOMPLETE SOLUTION