lujanfernaud's solution to Isogram on the Elixir track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

Determine if a word or phrase is an isogram.

An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a word or phrase without a repeating letter, however spaces and hyphens are allowed to appear multiple times.

Examples of isograms:

lumberjacks
background
downstream
six-year-old

The word isograms, however, is not an isogram, because the s repeats.

Running tests

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$ mix test

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test "shouting" do
  assert Bob.hey("WATCH OUT!") == "Whoa, chill out!"
end

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Source

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogram

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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isogram_test.exs

defmodule IsogramTest do
  use ExUnit.Case

  test "isogram lowercase" do
    assert Isogram.isogram?("subdermatoglyphic")
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "not isogram lowercase " do
    refute Isogram.isogram?("eleven")
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "isogram uppercase" do
    assert Isogram.isogram?("DEMONSTRABLY")
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "not isogram uppercase" do
    refute Isogram.isogram?("ALPHABET")
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "isogram with dash" do
    assert Isogram.isogram?("hjelmqvist-gryb-zock-pfund-wax")
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "not isogram with dash" do
    refute Isogram.isogram?("twenty-five")
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "phrase is isogram" do
    assert Isogram.isogram?("emily jung schwartzkopf")
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "phrase is not isogram" do
    refute Isogram.isogram?("the quick brown fox")
  end
end

test_helper.exs

ExUnit.start()
ExUnit.configure(exclude: :pending, trace: true)

defmodule Isogram do
  @doc """
  Determines if a word or sentence is an isogram
  """
  @spec isogram?(String.t()) :: boolean
  def isogram?(sentence) do
    characters = Regex.scan(~r{\w}, sentence)

    characters == Enum.uniq(characters)
  end
end

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