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Given a string, extract the first letter of each word in it. “Words” are defined as contiguous strings of alphabetic characters i.e. any upper or lower case characters a-z or A-Z. Examples:

Input : Beginner for Beginner
Output :Gfg
        
Input : United Kingdom
Output : UK

Below is the Regular expression to extract the first letter of each word. It uses ‘/b'(one of boundary matchers). Please refer How to write Regular Expressions? to learn it.

\b[a-zA-Z]

Java

// Java program to demonstrate extracting first
// letter of each word using Regex
 
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
public class Test 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        String s1 = "Beginner for Beginner";
        String s2 = "A Computer Science Portal for Beginner";
         
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\b[a-zA-Z]");
         
        Matcher m1 = p.matcher(s1);
        Matcher m2 = p.matcher(s2);
         
        System.out.println("First letter of each word from string \"" + s1 + "\" : ");
        while (m1.find())
            System.out.print(m1.group());
         
        System.out.println();
         
        System.out.println("First letter of each word from string \"" + s2 + "\" : ");
         
        while (m2.find()) 
            System.out.print(m2.group());
         
         
    }
}

C#

// C# program to demonstrate extracting first
// letter of each word using Regex
 
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
public class GFG
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string s1 = "Beginner for Beginner";
        string s2 = "A Computer Science Portal for Beginner";
         
        Regex p = new Regex("\\b[a-zA-Z]");
         
         
        Console.WriteLine("First letter of each word from string \"" + s1 + "\" : ");
        foreach (Match ItemMatch in p.Matches(s1))
            Console.Write(ItemMatch.Value);
         
        Console.WriteLine();
         
        Console.WriteLine("First letter of each word from string \"" + s2 + "\" : ");
         
        foreach (Match ItemMatch in p.Matches(s2))
            Console.Write(ItemMatch.Value);
         
    }
}
 
// This code is contributed by Utkarsh

Python3

# Python program to demonstrate extracting first
# letter of each word using Regex
import re
 
s1="Beginner for Beginner"
s2="A Computer Science Portal for Beginner"
 
p = re.compile("\\b[a-zA-Z]")
 
print("First letter of each word from string '{0}' : ".format(s1))
 
for m1 in re.finditer(p,s1):
    print(m1.group(0),end="")
     
print()
 
print("First letter of each word from string '{0}' : ".format(s2))
 
for m2 in re.finditer(p,s2):
    print(m2.group(0),end="")
     
 
# This code is contributed by Pushpesh Raj.

Output:

First letter of each word from string "Beginner for Beginner" : 
GfG
First letter of each word from string "A Computer Science Portal for Beginner" : 
ACSPfG

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