Problem 489. Bang Bang in Bangalore

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Imagine a strange language disorder, Bangolangosis, has developed among trigonometricians of Bangalore, India, when calculating angles of triangles wrong and banging head in frustration.

The most obvious symptom: the affected individuals say "bang" for "bang-bang" and vice versa.

Example

The following sample should help understanding their problem more clearly. A native utterance by an affected person:

 'Bang Raja-bang#@om uttam%$# bang-bang swamy&^%$'

The corrected version should actually be:

 'Bang-bang Raja-bang#@om uttam%$# bang swamy&^%$'.

Please correct the given string accordingly.

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goc3 on 12 Dec 2016

The test suite has been enhanced.

Jafar Mortadha on 28 Jul 2018

The creator of this problem might have indeed banged his head, which has affected his ability to think properly. I wish such stupid and meaningless problems stop showing up on Cody.

ChrisR on 30 Sep 2020

I admit that the time I'll spend on correcting the text of sufferers of Bangolangosis is small, but what I learned about regexprep from solving this problem will surely help me in other applications.

Christian Schröder on 20 Oct 2022

I disagree with Jafar's assessment: I thought this was a pretty funny problem.

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