HiddenMessage | Topcoder Archive

Problem Statement

Some texts contain hidden messages. In the context of this problem, the hidden message of a text is composed of the first letter from each word in the text, in the order they appear.

Given a String text, consisting of only lowercase letters and spaces, return the hidden message. A word is a maximal sequence of consecutive letters. There may be multiple spaces between words. Also, text may contain only spaces.

Definition

Class:: HiddenMessage
Method:: getMessage
Parameters:: String
Returns:: String
Method signature:: String getMessage(String text)
(be sure your method is public)

Constraints

text will contain between 1 and 50 characters, inclusive.
Each character of text will be either a lowercase letter ('a'-'z'), or a space (' ').

Examples

```
"compete online design event rating"
```
```
Returns: "coder"
```
Taking the first letter from each word yields the return "coder".

"  c    o d     e      r    "

Returns: "coder"

Watch out for the leading spaces.

"round  elimination during  onsite  contest"

Returns: "redoc"

"coder" written backwards.

```
" "
```
```
Returns: ""
```
Since there are no words here, the empty string must be returned.

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