Tags: minimicro, farmtronics, commandline, tryit
Assign every lowercase letter a value, from 1 for a to 26 for z. Write a lettersum function that, given a string, finds the sum of the values of the letters inthe string.
Examples:
lettersum("") == 0
lettersum("a") == 1
lettersum("z") == 26
lettersum("cab") == 6
lettersum("excellent") == 100
lettersum("unconstitutionally") == 264
Bonus for Mini Micro and Farmtronics users: read all the words in /sys/data/englishWords.txt, and print out any word (and its sum) whose letter sum is 250 or more. You should find seven such words.
Hints
You don't need a map to get the value of each letter; you can calculate it directly from the Unicode value, using the code function. Note that "a".code is 97.
From there, it's just a matter of using a for loop to iterate over the letters of the given string, adding up the value for each.
This challenge was adapted from this Reddit post.