Python: Find all words starting with 'a' or 'e' in a given string

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28. Words Starting with a/e

Write a Python program to find all words starting with 'a' or 'e' in a given string.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

import re
# Input.
text = "The following example creates an ArrayList with a capacity of 50 elements. Four elements are then added to the ArrayList and the ArrayList is trimmed accordingly."
#find all the words starting with 'a' or 'e'
list = re.findall("[ae]\w+", text)
# Print result.
print(list)

Sample Output:

['example', 'eates', 'an', 'ayList', 'apacity', 'elements', 'elements', 'are', 'en', 'added', 'ayList', 'and',
 'ayList', 'ed', 'accordingly']  
 

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