Given a word, determine its score in Scrabble.
The input string will always be provided in lower case. Use the English language Scrabble letter values as found in this Wikipedia reference: letter distributions for English.
Example:
Input str = 'matlab' Output score is 10.
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Paul Smits
on 15 Apr 2019
Funny that 2017a-style double quotations significantly shorter the size as compared to the 2016b-style string() function alternative :)
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rifat
on 13 Mar 2015
didnt see that Cody changed the test suite of this problem and I lost one important badge. such a shame..
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Gareth Lee
on 21 May 2015
not good
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