Problem 56. Scrabble Scores

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Given a word, determine its score in Scrabble.

The input string will always be provided in lower case. Use the English language Scrabble letter values as found in this Wikipedia reference: letter distributions for English.

Example:

 Input  str = 'matlab'
 Output score is 10.

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Jonas on 10 Jun 2020

Why don't you provide the counting system inside the function? What's the point of retyping it from wiki?

Peter on 16 Aug 2023

@Jonas
I agree
case {'l','s','u','n','r','t','o','a','i','e'}
score=1
case {'g','d'}
score=2
case {'b','c','m','p'}
score=3
case {'f','h','v','w','y'}
score=4
case {'k'}
score=5
case {'j','x'}
score=8
case {'q','z'}
score=10

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