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Are you guys arguing against the use of regex here really going to be so dense about it? It's a simple exercise to help teach regex. That's all it is. Why not use regex to solve the simple regex exercise?

it took me some time until i figured the -1 and -2 to get the second form the last

you could have used the sum function. dont forget we are lazy.

This is technically best practice, not top one

what's the problem with using a library?

i did that throws error had to check for string len 2 or 3

damn

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Well I call it Best Practices.

These qs are supposed to be debugged not optimized

Same! TIL

A quick word of thanks - I actively learned from this. I appreciate all of you who put this answer in and helped make my code better. :)