lazy val values = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".toList.zip(Stream.from(1)).toMap def solve (str: String): Int = { ("[aeiou]".r.split(str).toList map evaluate).max } def evaluate (str: String): Int = { (str map (values.getOrElse(_, 0))).sum } solve("zodiacs") // 26 solve("chruschtschov") // 80 solve("khrushchev") // 38 solve("strength") // 57 solve("catchphrase") // 73 solve("twelfthstreet") // 103 solve("mischtschenkoana") // 80
I've always appreciated Scala solutions for their mixed-notation to function-call chaining, it's truly bizarre. 😲
...(str map ([expr]) // prefix-notation chaining... ...[expr]).sum // object-notation chaining...
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I've always appreciated Scala solutions for their mixed-notation to function-call chaining, it's truly bizarre. 😲