Pangram

Pangram

Easy

Introduction

You work for a company that sells fonts through their website. They'd like to show a different sentence each time someone views a font on their website. To give a comprehensive sense of the font, the random sentences should use all the letters in the English alphabet.

They're running a competition to get suggestions for sentences that they can use. You're in charge of checking the submissions to see if they are valid.

Note

Pangram comes from Greek, παν γράμμα, pan gramma, which means "every letter".

The best known English pangram is:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Instructions

Your task is to figure out if a sentence is a pangram.

A pangram is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. It is case insensitive, so it doesn't matter if a letter is lower-case (e.g. k) or upper-case (e.g. K).

For this exercise, a sentence is a pangram if it contains each of the 26 letters in the English alphabet.

Track Specific Notes

Consider inputs case insensitive and allow more than one of each required char.

Running and testing your solutions

From the command line

Simply type make chez if you're using ChezScheme or make guile if you're using GNU Guile. Sometimes the name for the scheme binary on your system will differ from the defaults. When this is the case, you'll need to tell make by running make chez chez=your-chez-binary or make guile guile=your-guile-binary.

From a REPL

  • Enter (load "test.scm") at the repl prompt.
  • Develop your solution in pangram.scm reloading as you go.
  • Run (test) to check your solution.

Failed Test Cases

If some of the test cases fail, you should see the failing input and the expected output. The failing input is presented as a list because the tests call your solution by (apply pangram input-list). To learn more about apply see The Scheme Programming Language -- Chapter 5


Source

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