From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-09-23T03:39:40+09:00
Subject: Re: How would you write it vs Smalltalk

On 9/22/07, gabriele renzi <rff_rffREMOVE@yahoo.it> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:37:28 +0900, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:
>
>
> > I just wonder how would you write it?  There is no each_char it seems,
> > unless with ActiveSupport.

>
> So something like:
>  gets.downcase.each_byte {|b| h[c.chr] += 1 if c =~ ?a..?z}

Here's another way:

puts "Enter line:"
h = Hash.new(0)
gets.scan(/[a-zA-Z]/) {|ch| h[ch.downcase] += 1 }
p h.sort

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Rick DeNatale

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