addwords.rb

addwords.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# addwords.rb
# you know those posts that are like
# A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E= 100, or whatever?
# this program does that
# you need a file to pass to initialize
# that has one word per line
# most distros have a dict somewhere, just use that

class WordAdder
  def initialize(f)
    @letters = ('a'..'z').to_a
    @words = File.open(f)
  end

  def add_up(word)
    res = 0
    word.each_char do |c|
      res += @letters.index(c) + 1 if @letters.index(c)
    end
    res
  end

  def eat_file(thresh = 1)
    @words.each_line do |line|
      puts "#{line.chomp} = #{add_up(line)}" if add_up(line) >= thresh
    end
  end
end

w = WordAdder.new('words.txt')
w.eat_file(100)