If you mean "bookkeeper" should be "bokeper", then there's a really fast way to do so. This would be collapsing adjacent duplicate letters into just one, by the way. That's a more accurate description of the problem.
$string =~ tr/a-zA-Z//s;
Look up
tr/// in the
perlop documentation.
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s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;