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You've been given a contract from a three letter abbreviation government agency. They want a program to automatically redact sensitive information from documents to be released to the public. They want fine control over what gets redacted though.
Given a piece of free-form, possibly Unicode text, (assume text only, no markup or formatting codes) they want to be able to redact: whole words, (case sensitive or insensitive) or partial words, (case sensitive or insensitive). Further, they want the option to "overkill" redact a partial word. Overkill redact means if the word ''contains'' the redact target, even
For our purposes, a "word" here, means: a character group, separated by white-space and possibly punctuation; not necessarily strictly alphabetic characters. To "redact" a word or partial word, replace each character in the redaction target with a capital letter 'X'. There should be the same number of graphemes in the final redacted word as there were in the non-redacted word.
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