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remove question marks and exclamation points

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Hi everyone,

I wrote code to remove question marks and exclamation points from some text. However, one can find those in my output file. Interesting enough, the periods (full stops) were removed. Can anybody help me figure this out? 


import java.util.Scanner;


public class TextTokenizer {
    private Scanner scanner;
    private String[] removableCharacters = { ".", "?", "!", ":", ";", "\"", "'" };
    

    public TextTokenizer(char[] texts) {
        scanner = new Scanner(new String(texts));
    }
    
    // Get the next word
    public char[] nextWord() {
        
        while(scanner.hasNext()) {
            String word = scanner.next().trim();
            
            if(word.isEmpty()) {
                continue;
            }
            
            for(String character : removableCharacters) {
                if(word.startsWith(character) || word.endsWith(character)) {
                    word = word.replace(character, "");
                }
            }
            
            return word.toCharArray();
        }
        
        return null;
    }
}

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remove question marks and exclamation points elodie.gillain@gmail.com - 2015-01-24 09:21 -0800
  Re: remove question marks and exclamation points Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-24 12:58 -0500
    Re: remove question marks and exclamation points Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-24 12:59 -0500
  Re: remove question marks and exclamation points Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-01-24 13:39 -0500
  Re: remove question marks and exclamation points elodie.gillain@gmail.com - 2015-01-24 11:36 -0800
  Re: remove question marks and exclamation points Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-01-24 20:13 -0500

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