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Hacker-rank - Java Regex 2 - Duplicate Words Solutions

       import java.util.Scanner ;         import java.util.regex.Matcher ; import java.util.regex.Pattern ; public class DuplicateWords { public static void main ( String [] args ) { String regex = "(\\b\\w+\\b)(\\s+\\1\\b)+" ; Pattern p = Pattern . compile ( regex , Pattern . CASE_INSENSITIVE ); Scanner in = new Scanner ( System . in ); int numSentences = Integer . parseInt ( in . nextLine ()); while ( numSentences -- > 0 ) { String input = in . nextLine (); Matcher m = p . matcher ( input ); // Check for subsequences of input that match the compiled pattern while ( m . find ()) { input = input . replaceAll ( m . group (), m . group ( 1 )); } // Prints the modified sentence. System . out . println ( input ); }