Dear Monks,

As part of a problem, I am trying to do the following but cannot come up with a real nice solution. I tried to do this using both regex and otherwise but could not do it correctly.

Input sentence to program: The seller has the following *fruit* types: ( *apples* , *oranges* , *pears* , *berries* , and *mangoes* ).

Output: The seller has following *fruit* types: *(#apples#,#oranges#,#pears#,#berries#and#mangoes#)*.

The input can have two optional variants: no parenthesis, and/or no comma before 'and' in the sentence, also the number of fruits is a variable with a minimum value of 2 fruits - the output should change accordingly.

Thanks very much in advance.

Raj

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