Ruby Challenge: Just_a_ord_friend

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Task Details:

Execute the code against the input file (somefile.txt).
The expected output results are below.

71017

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Input File Contents (somefile.txt):

So I took blah - blah's word for it at this time
 I thought just havin' a friend couldn't be no crime
  'Cause I have  friends and that's a fact
 Like Agnes, Agatha, Germaine, and Jacq
Forget about    that, let's go into the story
 About a girl named blah-blah-blah that adored me
  So we         started talkin', getttin' familiar
   Spendin' a lot of time so we can build up
    A relationship or some understanding
   How it's gonna be in the future we was plannin'
  Everything sounded so dandy and sweet
 I had no idea  I was in for a treat
After this was established, everything was cool
 The tour was over and she went back to school
  I called every day to see how she was doin'
   Every time that I called her it seemed somethin' was brewin'
    I called her on my dime, picked up, and then I called again
   I said, yo, who was that? Oh, he's just a friend
  Don't gimme that, don't ever gimme that
Jus' bust       this

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Just_a_ord_friend Challenge Solution

for arg in ARGV
   file = File.open(arg)

   file_data = file.read.gsub!(/\n/, " ").inspect

   total = 0

   file_data.each_char do |char|

     if (/^[a-z]*$/ === char) == true || (/^[A-Z]*$/ === char) == true

       new = char.ord.to_i

       total += new

     else
     end

   end

   puts total

end

Solution Notes:

Based on the ASCII table the “new line” character has an ORD value which causes problems with this task as shown below:
“10 LF (NL line feed, new line)””
Therefore, its must be removed using the method .gsub!(/\n/, “ “)\

The total variable will be used to sum up all the valid ORD integers within the each loop.\

Use the “each_char” to go through each character individually.\

The “if-else” statement will be used to test out valid characters.
The === operation produce a true/false result.\

The .ord method is used to convert the character into a decimal value.\

The total += new adds the new value to the total values accumulated with each iteration.\