Abbreviated Sentences
April 28, 2017
Sometimes people send me their homework problems and expect me to write programs for them. I ignore such people, but I do collect the tasks and use them in the blog from time to time, always waiting several months until the term has ended. Today’s exercise comes by that route:
Write a program that takes as input a sentence (a sequence of characters) and abbreviates it by replacing each word (a maximal sequence of letters) with the first letter of the word, followed by the number of letters in the middle of the word, followed by the last letter of the word. For instance, Programming Praxis is abbreviated P9g P4s. Any non-letter characters in the input should be retained in their original position in the output.
Your task is to write a program that abbreviates sentences. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 