Problem 2440. Text processing - Help Johnny write a letter home from camp

Created by Dave Bergstein

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Jan Orwat on 16 Jul 2014

Hey Dave! It would be awesome, if there was sentences with more than 2 'great' or words like 'greater'.

J.R.! Menzinger on 21 Jul 2014

Definitively I must learn MORE regexp... :-/ I knew what to do, but I couldn't implement it.

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