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Support the Repeated Letters

Explore techniques for handling repeated letters in Ruby while building a hangman game. Understand how to identify and replace multiple occurrences of letters within a word to enhance game functionality and user experience.

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The issue of repeated letters

So far, we’ve left aside the issue of repeated letters. It’s now time to address this problem.

Once again, we'll use a test file (test_word_info.rb). The contents of the file are shown below:

Ruby
#test_word_info.rb
require_relative 'word_info'
puts word_info('palladium', ['p'])
puts word_info('palladium', ['p', 'l'])
puts word_info('palladium', ['p', 'l', 'a'])

We used the word “palladium” because it contains two interesting cases:

  • Two identical letters following each other.

  • Two identical letters not following each other.

We also see on lines 3–5 how we can send a collection (marked by the opening and closing square brackets). Here, the collection that we have contains the letters P , L and A as its elements. We can see this in line 5. ...