Problem 66. Find the two-word state names

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Jake McIvor on 26 Jan 2012

The test function has some incorrect values: Nebraska and Nevada are incorrectly removed, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia are incorrectly left in.

Ned Gulley on 26 Jan 2012

I've fixed the problem and you're now the leader. Sorry about that!

Richard Zapor on 3 Jun 2012

A second test case is needed for this problem. 'New York Nevada' should suffice.

Ned Gulley on 5 Jun 2012

I added another test, similar to the one suggested. Thanks for the comment Richard!

Richard on 28 Aug 2015

I keep getting 'inappropriate content' errors.

HH on 27 Sep 2015

"Remove inappropriate content" error...

XuanRong Pan on 13 Jul 2019

What is " two_word name"??

Sanzhar Askaruly on 11 Aug 2019

if i would grasp all regexp possibilities in depth.. makes me cry

Willion Bird on 22 Nov 2019

What do this problem mean ?

David Motson on 10 Jan 2020

@Cody Team, does this need to be a Cody Challenge? It's a pretty rubbish problem

Rik on 13 Jan 2021

I would vote for removal from this list as well. There is even another one about US states... This is so infuriating and repetitive I almost resorted to echoing assert.

Marco Riani on 3 Jan 2022 at 11:36

I too would vote for removal from this list.
I can understand strtrim but not that in the solution there must be exactly the same amount of (say) 7 spaces between two consecutive words.

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Dan K. on 5 May 2020

Terrible test suite. The test suite fails if you don't replace every removed entry with exactly one space.

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Iskender Gencer on 13 Dec 2019

The pass criteria should not be specific to the number of spaces that are left instead of the omitted state names. This beats the purpose of the exercise. There should either be no extra spaces left in the solutions, or it should not be specific to how the author of the challenge solved the problem.

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Miles Walker on 14 Nov 2019

I've never cared so much about America

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Gregory on 10 May 2019

Inconsistent behavior - if you are going to make a question like this, make it representative of what would actual be done and not some arbitrary undocumented rules like "replace a two-word state name with a space"

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Apurbo Roy Chowdhury on 31 Jul 2021

I am a new Matlab programmer and don't know much about regexp. Is it not good to use that?

goc3 on 3 Aug 2021

@Apurbo, regexp is a great function for its intended application. Unfortunately, some Cody users have exploited that function, and a few others, to cheat—the comment in this solution is referring to that widespread problem.

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Deepthi Palagati on 24 Aug 2018

did not give the list of states names

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Said BOUREZG on 29 May 2017

Something wrong in test 1

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