**C++ Synopsis: Type in a word and get a point value. In both Words With Friends

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**C++

Synopsis: Type in a word and get a point value.

In both Words With Friends and the scrabble game, a individual letters in a word are given specific values.

For this lab, calculate the value of a word with the following specific rules:

Each letter has the following values:

A, E, I, M, Q, U, Y are worth 1 point

B, F, J, N, R, V, Z are worth 2 points

C, G, K, O, S, W are worth 3 points

D, H, L, P, T, X are worth 5 points.

Any word that contains two (or more) of the same letter in a row has it's value doubled. Some examples are 'asset' and 'little'. You can only double things once.

Your program should ask the user for a word (without spaces) and print it's value.

Ignore any special characters or numbers that are entered. [I won't include these in my test cases].

You HAVE to use my rules or you will receive 0 credit!

You also need to check to see if the word is in a dictionary. There's one at

http://www.csit.parkland.edu/~kurban/permanent/lists/

and it's called web2.txt

It contains one word per line and is already sorted. You can make your own smaller dictionary to test it if you like.

Examples:

asset = (1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 5) * 2 = 26 (double letters)

little = (5 + 1 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 1) * 2 = 44 (double letters)

abacadabra = (1 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 1) = 19 (NO double letters)

football = (2 + 3 + 3 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 5) * 2 = 52 (double letters only double once)

Explanation / Answer

Check this :

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include<algorithm>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
vector<string> letter;

    for(int i = 0; i < 12;i++)
    {
        letter.push_back("E");
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < 9;i++)
    {
        letter.push_back("A");
        letter.push_back("I");
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < 8;i++)
    {
        letter.push_back("O");
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < 6;i++)
    {
        letter.push_back("N");
        letter.push_back("R");
        letter.push_back("T");
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < 4;i++)
    {
        letter.push_back("L");
        letter.push_back("S");
        letter.push_back("U");
        letter.push_back("D");
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < 3;i++)
    {
        letter.push_back("G");
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < 2;i++)
    {
        letter.push_back("B");
        letter.push_back("C");
        letter.push_back("M");
        letter.push_back("P");
        letter.push_back("F");
        letter.push_back("H");
        letter.push_back("V");
        letter.push_back("W");
        letter.push_back("Y");
    }

letter.push_back("K");
letter.push_back("J");
letter.push_back("X");
letter.push_back("Q");
letter.push_back("Z");
random_shuffle( letter.begin(), letter.end() );// is once not enough?

size_t i = 0;
// display entire tile pool
for( i=0; i<letter.size(); ++i )
{
  cout << letter[i] << " ";
  if( (i+1)%20 == 0 )cout << endl;// 20 to a line
}
string p1tile[8];// the 2 players tile hands
string p2tile[8];
// fill hands
for( i=0; i<8; ++i )
  if( !letter.empty() )
  {
   p1tile[i] = letter.back();
   letter.pop_back();
  }
for( i=0; i<8; ++i )
  if( !letter.empty() )
  {
   p2tile[i] = letter.back();
   letter.pop_back();
  }
// show hands
cout << " hand1 = ";
for( i=0; i<8; ++i )
  cout << p1tile[i] << " ";
cout << " hand2 = ";
for( i=0; i<8; ++i )
  cout << p2tile[i] << " ";

cout << endl;
return 0;
}

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