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Blocks Lab 1: Hashtag Overload

In this lab, we'll write a short program that will auto-hashtag our tweets for us. Put this line in a new Ruby file:

tweet = "We ate fifty cheeseburgers for lunch"

Your objective is to transform this tweet into the array ["#fifty", "#cheeseburgers", "#lunch"]. You'll need to do three things:

  • Split the tweet into an array of words
  • Select only words that are longer than 3 characters
  • Add a hash mark (#) before each word

You may end up creating some intermediate variables to do this. However, it is possible to do it all on one line!

Extra Challenge

How would you stick the hashtags onto the end of the original tweet to get a hashtagged tweet? For example, "We ate fifty cheeseburgers for lunch #fifty #cheeseburgers #lunch"

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