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Program to remove consonants from a String

  • Difficulty Level : Basic
  • Last Updated : 09 Jun, 2021

Given a string str , the task is to remove all the consonants from the string and then print the string.

Examples:  

Input: str= “Welcome to geeksforgeeks” 
Output: eoe o eeoee

Input: str= “What is your name?” 
Output: a i ou ae? 

Approach: Traverse all the characters of the string, if the character is a consonant then remove it from the final answer.



Below is the implementation of the above approach:

Java




// Java program to remove consonants from a String
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
 
class Test {
 
    // function that returns true
    // if the character is an alphabet
    static boolean isAlphabet(char ch)
    {
        if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z')
            return true;
        if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z')
            return true;
        return false;
    }
 
    // function to return the string after
    // removing all the consonants from it
    static String remConsonants(String str)
    {
        Character vowels[]
            = { 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U' };
 
        List<Character> al = Arrays.asList(vowels);
 
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(str);
 
        for (int i = 0; i < sb.length(); i++) {
 
            if (isAlphabet(sb.charAt(i))
                && !al.contains(sb.charAt(i))) {
                sb.replace(i, i + 1, "");
                i--;
            }
        }
 
        return sb.toString();
    }
 
    // Driver method to test the above function
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String str
            = "GeeeksforGeeks - A Computer Science Portal for Geeks";
 
        System.out.println(remConsonants(str));
    }
}
Python3



# Python3 program to remove consonants from a String
  
# function that returns true
# if the character is an alphabet
def isAlphabet(ch): 
    if (ch >= 'a' and ch <= 'z'):
        return True;
    if (ch >= 'A' and ch <= 'Z'):
        return True;
    return False;
 
# Function to return the string after
# removing all the consonants from it
def remConsonants(str):
    vowels = [ 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u',  'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U' ]    
    sb = "";   
    for i in range(len(str)):   
        present = False;       
        for j in range(len(vowels)):   
            if (str[i] == vowels[j]):           
                present = True;
                break;        
        if (not isAlphabet(str[i]) or present ):   
            sb += str[i];
    return sb;
 
# Driver code
if __name__=='__main__':   
    str = "GeeeksforGeeks - A Computer Science Portal for Geeks";
    print(remConsonants(str));
 
    # This code is contributed by pratham76
C#



// C# program to remove consonants from a String
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
 
class GFG{
  
// Function that returns true
// if the character is an alphabet
static bool isAlphabet(char ch)
{
    if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z')
        return true;
    if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z')
        return true;
         
    return false;
}
 
// Function to return the string after
// removing all the consonants from it
static string remConsonants(string str)
{
    char []vowels = { 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u',
                      'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U' };
     
    string sb = "";
 
    for(int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++)
    {
        bool present = false;
        for(int j = 0; j < vowels.Length; j++)
        {
            if (str[i] == vowels[j])
            {
                present = true;
                break;
            }
        }
         
        if (!isAlphabet(str[i]) || present )
        {
            sb += str[i];
        }
    }
    return sb;
}
 
// Driver code
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string str = "GeeeksforGeeks - A Computer Science Portal for Geeks";
 
    Console.Write(remConsonants(str));
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by rutvik_56
Javascript



<script>
 
      // JavaScript program to remove
      // consonants from a String
       
      // Function that returns true
      // if the character is an alphabet
      function isAlphabet(ch) {
        if (ch >= "a" && ch <= "z") return true;
        if (ch >= "A" && ch <= "Z") return true;
 
        return false;
      }
 
      // Function to return the string after
      // removing all the consonants from it
      function remConsonants(str) {
        var vowels =
        ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "A", "E", "I", "O", "U"];
 
        var sb = "";
 
        for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
          var present = false;
          for (var j = 0; j < vowels.length; j++) {
            if (str[i] === vowels[j]) {
              present = true;
              break;
            }
          }
 
          if (!isAlphabet(str[i]) || present) {
            sb += str[i];
          }
        }
        return sb;
      }
 
      // Driver code
      var str =
      "GeeeksforGeeks - A Computer Science Portal for Geeks";
 
      document.write(remConsonants(str));
       
    </script>
Output: 
eeeoee - A oue iee oa o ee
 
Below is another program using Regular Expressions in Java 
Java



// Java program to remove consonants from a String
 
class Test
{   
    static String remVowel(String str)
    {
         return str.replaceAll("[BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVXZbcdfghjklmnpqrstvxz]", "");
    }
     
    // Driver method to test the above function
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String str = "GeeeksforGeeks - A Computer Science Portal for Geeks";
         
        System.out.println(remVowel(str));
    }
}
C#



// C# program to remove consonants from a String
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
class GFG
{
    static String remVowel(String str)
    {
        return Regex.Replace(str, "[BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVXZbcdfghjklmnpqrstvxz]", "");
    }
     
    // Driver code
    public static void Main()
    {
        String str = "GeeeksforGeeks - A Computer Science Portal for Geeks";
         
        Console.WriteLine(remVowel(str));
    }
}
 
// This code is contributed by Rajput-Ji
Output: 
eeeoee - A oue iee oa o ee
 
Time complexity : O(n) where n is the length of string
 



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