Problem 1376. Find names/words that start and end with the same letter.

Created by Cedric Wannaz

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Cedric Wannaz on 23 Mar 2013

I forgot, the "ans" trick when I ran the test function, so *** it is still possible to make it with size 12 and take the lead! ***

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 23 Mar 2013

does the word "a" in the second test suite not meet the requirements?

Cedric Wannaz on 23 Mar 2013

That's a good point. It does not, because I assumed words to be at least two letters, but I should put this information in the statement!

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Yuan on 30 Jun 2013

\\s* should be replaced by [\\w-]*

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Carlos Adrian Vargas Aguilera on 2 Jul 2013

tHE BEST ONE!

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