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Let L be any language. Define even (W) as the strings obtained by extracting from W the letters in the even-numbered positions and even(L) = {even (W) | W ∈ L}. We define another language Chop (L) by removing the two leftmost symbols of every string in L given by \(\text{Chop}(L) = \{W \mid \nu W \in L, \text{ with } |\nu| = 2\}\).

If L is regular language then

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Both even(L) and Chop(L) are regular.

Regular languages are closed under many string operations that a finite automaton can simulate.

For even(L), build an automaton that guesses the skipped odd-position symbol and moves two steps of the DFA for L for each kept symbol; this is a finite construction, so even(L) is regular.

Chop(L) is the left quotient of L by the regular set of all strings of length two, and regular languages are closed under quotient, so Chop(L) is regular as well.

Hence, Both even(L) and Chop(L) are regular.

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