Scrabble Score

Challenge Overview

Given a word, compute the Scrabble score for that word.

Visit the scrabble-score exercise on Exercism to read the full instructions and download the exercise files.

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Source: Exercism cpp/scrabble-score

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namespace scrabble_score {
    int score(string word) {
        const int pts[26] = {1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 8, 5, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 8, 4, 10};

        int score = 0;
        for (const char& c : word) if (isalpha(c)) score += pts[toupper(c) - 'A'];

        return score;
    }
}