Chapter 8 Question 1

[darciew]

Not sure how to match the values to the users word and add them all together?

At the moment it is just printing out the word...

Any ideas on where I am going wrong?

[afaraone]

It looks like the strings in word are lower case. Does it work with upper case?

[jonurry]

Hi Darcie, There's no need to iterate over the points hash. you already know the letter, so to get the points value for that letter you can say: points[letter] Also, afaraone is correct. You need to be using upper case letters or converting them to upper case before accessing the hash keys.

[darciew]

thanks both :)

That seemed to do the trick now I am just left with the values printed - do I use sum to add them all up?

[jonurry]

you can keep a running total in a variable (increment the total score for each letter) and output the total score at the end

[darciew]

thanks @jonurry!