razvanbugoi / substrings

Sub Strings

This Ruby method searches a string parameter and counts occurrences of words from a dictionary parameter

Parameters

(String, Array)

Returns

Hash

Problems

Create a method that accepts a string and a dictionary array, then counts each occurrence of every word of the dictionary in the passed string

What I used

Ruby arrays, hashes, regex, and string methods

What I learned

• How to use regex to find exact matches in a string
• How to count the number of regex matches
• How to iterate over an array
• How to initialise a hash
• How to add data to a hash
• How to change the values of a hash