#!/usr/bin/env python # Revised by Parke Godfrey # 2017-09-24 import sys import re # input comes from STDIN (standard input) for line in sys.stdin: # remove leading and trailing whitespace line = line.strip() word, count = line.split('\t', 1) letters = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z]+', '', word) if len(letters) > 0: print('%s\t%s' % (letters[0], count))