Python: Find all three, four, five characters long words in a string

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34. Find 3-5 Letter Words

Write a Python program to find all three, four, and five character words in a string.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

import re
text = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'
print(re.findall(r"\b\w{3,5}\b", text))

Sample Output:

['The', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 'jumps', 'over', 'the', 'lazy', 'dog']

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