[HELP] How to Extract The First First Character From Each Word in The Title

[Romtromon]

I think the subject explains it for the most part but let me give you a few examples just to make it clear.

"The Shawshank Redemption" would become "TSR"
"The Exorcism of Emily Rose" would become "TEoER" (Note that I want it to be case-sensitive)
"Haikyuu!!" would become "H!!" (Note that I want to retain punctuation and other special characters)

I have a feeling this might be fairly tough to do and I have no experience with Groovy or Java myself. I'd greatly appreciate any help!!

[rednoah]

Option 1:
Use the String.acronym() function:

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'The Exorcism of Emily Rose!!!'.acronym() == 'EOER'

Not exactly what you want, but easy.


Option 2:
Be a cool coder:

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{'The Exorcism of Emily Rose!!!'.matchAll(/\b\w|[!?]/).join() == 'TEoER!!!'}

OR

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{'The Exorcism of Emily Rose!!!'.replaceAll(/(?<=\w)[\w\s]/, '') == 'TEoER!!!'}

[Romtromon]

This is amazing thank you so much!! I should really read into Groovy cause seems like practically anything is possible! Thanks again you've been a big help!!