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  1. import re
  2.  
  3. text = "c-c-c-c-come oh-oh-oh-oh it's a bad life oh-oh-oh-oh"
  4. pattern = r"(?<!\S)(\w{1,3})(?:-\1)*-(\w+)(?!\S)"
  5. text = re.sub(pattern, r'\2', text)
  6. print(text)
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 27712KB
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come oh it's a bad life oh
https://ideone.com/1wuc2s
language:
Python 3 (python  3.9.5)
created:
4 years ago
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