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Truncate Sentence

A sentence is a list of words that are separated by a single space with no leading or trailing spaces.

A sentence is a list of words that are separated by a single space with no leading or trailing spaces. Each of the words consists of only uppercase and lowercase English letters (no punctuation).

You are given a sentence s​​​​​​ and an integer k​​​​​​. You want to truncate s​​​​​​ such that it contains only the first k​​​​​​ words. Return s​​​​​​ after truncating it.

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Example 1

Input: s = "Hello how are you Contestant", k = 4

Output: "Hello how are you"

Explanation: The words in s are ["Hello", "how" "are", "you", "Contestant"]. The first 4 words are ["Hello", "how", "are", "you"]. Hence, you should return "Hello how are you".

Example 2

Input: s = "What is the solution to this problem", k = 4

Output: "What is the solution"

Explanation: The words in s are ["What", "is" "the", "solution", "to", "this", "problem"]. The first 4 words are ["What", "is", "the", "solution"]. Hence, you should return "What is the solution".

Example 3

Input: s = "chopper is not a tanuki", k = 5

Output: "chopper is not a tanuki"

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 500
  • k is in the range [1, the number of words in s].
  • s consist of only lowercase and uppercase English letters and spaces.
  • The words in s are separated by a single space.
  • There are no leading or trailing spaces.

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