Problem 1721. Backslang, odds are you used it at some point in time...

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 17 Jul 2013

Whaouh, in 17 size ?

Chaya N on 21 Oct 2016

Hey, Its Pig Latin!!!

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Dyuman Joshi on 23 Mar 2022

I finally successfully implemented regex!!!

goc3 on 12 Apr 2022

Nice!

Dyuman Joshi on 15 Apr 2022

Thanks! and it's been awhile, welcome back @goc3

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tom on 17 Jul 2013

could be done with a single regexprep if there was more fine-tuned control of the 'preservecase' keyword

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