A Groovy Scrabble scorer based on the Scala scorer at http://gist.github.com/618308

scrabble.groovy

#!/usr/bin/env groovy

/**
 * A Groovy port of the Scala script at http://log4p.com/2010/10/09/scala-shellscripts/
 */

if (args.length < 1) {
    println "usage: ./scrabble <filename>"
    return
}
new File(args[0]).eachLine { w ->
    println "$w\t${scoreWord w}"
}

def scoreWord(word) {
    word.inject(0) { score, c -> score + scoreChar(c) }
}

def scoreChar(c) {
    switch (c) {
        case 'a': return 1
        case 'b': return 3
        case 'c': return 5
        case 'd': return 2
        case 'e': return 1
        case 'f': return 4
        case 'g': return 3
        case 'h': return 4
        case 'i': return 1
        case 'j': return 4
        case 'k': return 3
        case 'l': return 3
        case 'm': return 3
        case 'n': return 1
        case 'o': return 1
        case 'p': return 3
        case 'q': return 10
        case 'r': return 2
        case 's': return 2
        case 't': return 2
        case 'u': return 4
        case 'v': return 4
        case 'w': return 5
        case 'x': return 8
        case 'y': return 8
        case 'z': return 4
        default: return 0
    }
}