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  1. import re
  2. rx = r"(Thanks,\s*)[A-Z][a-z]+\b(?!!)"
  3. strs = ["Thanks, Bob", "Thanks, Bob.", "Thanks, Bob!"]
  4. for s in strs: 
  5.     print( re.sub(rx, r"\1[NAME]", s) )
  6.  
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 27712KB
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stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
Thanks, [NAME]
Thanks, [NAME].
Thanks, Bob!
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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6 years ago
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