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2008 Feb 03
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Extract vowels and consonants using Ruby Regex
...> aaaiea
>> "Mary had a little lamb".consonants
=> mryhdlttllmb
However, the regex does not accommodate the conditional treatment of
''y'' as a vowel *if there is no other vowel before or after it.* If
properly implemented, the previous examples would return: ayaaiea
(vowels) and mrhdlttllmb (consonants).
According to this post (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=592867),
this could be accommodated in Perl using "zero-width negative-look-
behind" and "zero-width negative-look-ahead" assertions as follows:
my @vowels = ( /[aeiou]|(?<![ae...