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BJP3 Exercise 11.10: removeEvenLength

Language/Type: Java Collections Iterators Sets and Maps
Author: Marty Stepp (on 2013/04/01)

Write a method removeEvenLength that takes a Set of strings as a parameter and that removes all of the strings of even length from the set. For example, if your method is passed a set containing the following elements: 

["foo", "buzz", "bar", "fork", "bort", "spoon", "!", "dude"]

Your method should modify the set to store the following elements (the order of the elements does not matter): 

["foo", "bar", "spoon", "!"]
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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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