Problem Statement
Many languages, including English, French, Spanish, and German use Latin characters (a-z). Hawaiian, as well, uses these characters. However, only a small subset of these characters are used in the Hawaiian alphabet - the five vowels: 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', and seven consonants: 'h', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'p', 'w'. Given a sentence of words, you are to determine which could possibly be Hawaiian words. Anything which contains a letter not in the Hawaiian alphabet cannot be Hawaiian; every other word can be.
A word is defined as a contiguous sequence of letters. You will be given a sentence of words. You must tokenize them using a space (' ') as a delimiter, remove the words which cannot be Hawaiian, and return the rest in a String[], in the order in which they occur in the sentence, in the same case in which they appear in the sentence.
Definition
- Class:
- Hawaiian
- Method:
- getWords
- Parameters:
- String
- Returns:
- String[]
- Method signature:
- String[] getWords(String sentence)
- (be sure your method is public)
Constraints
- sentence will contain between 1 and 50 characters, inclusive.
- Each character in sentence will be an uppercase or lowercase letter (A-Z, a-z), or a space.
- sentence will not contain two consecutive spaces; that is, there will be exactly one space between words.
- sentence will not begin or end with a space.
Examples
"Hawaii is an island"
Returns: { "Hawaii", "an" }'s' is not a valid letter in Hawaiian, so "is" and "island" cannot be Hawaiian words."Mauna Kea and Mauna Koa are two mountains"
Returns: { "Mauna", "Kea", "Mauna", "Koa" }"Pineapple grows in Hawaii"
Returns: { "Pineapple", "in", "Hawaii" }
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