HardNLPnlp-391

Exact Match After Normalization

Problem

QA exact match compares lowercased strings after removing punctuation, collapsing whitespace runs, and stripping ends.

Given the two strings, return True when they match under this normalization.

Hint

Normalize both sides with identical steps before comparing.

case 1

in: ["The Cat!","the cat"]

expected: true

case 2

in: ["a-b","a b"]

expected: true

case 3

in: ["Hello","world"]

expected: false

Starter codePython

def exact_match_after_normalization(a, b):
    # Your code here
    pass

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