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A pangram is a piece of text that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once. "Quick fox jumps nightly above wizard."

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Pangram function in c++

I am browsing for two days now and have not find a solution which meets to my solution. I am trying to write a Pangram function. I have tried many ways but could not succeed. My function IsPangram always give it is not Pangram suggest me some ways.…
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Need help on Python

Q: A pangram is a sentence that contains all the letters of the English alphabet at least once, for example: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Your task here is to write a function to check a sentence to see if it is a pangram or…
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How do I check for pangrams in a line in ruby?

Some of you may notice I'm already back with the same painful code already. I'm not sure if the other question is still open or not once I accept an answer. Now the problem is a little simpler. I found some code that checked for pangrams. It use to…
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Check whether a list of words make a Pangram

I need to create a 2D string array and input to hi, up to 10 words, than to check if those words are pangram or not. The program needs to stop receiving words if the words are pangram. for example: the five boxing wizards jump quickly It's a…
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Pangram detection

beginner here-- Given a string, my code must detect whether or not it is a pangram. Return True if it is, False if not.It should ignore numbers and punctuation. When given "ABCD45EFGH,IJK,LMNOPQR56STUVW3XYZ" it returns none and when given "This…
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Why doesn't my Pangram solution output correctly?

The question is as follows: A pangram is a string that contains every letter of the alphabet. Given a sentence determine whether it is a pangram in the English alphabet. Ignore case. Return either pangram or not pangram as appropriate. My code works…
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How to detect wether or not a string is a pangram and return true or false

A pangram is a sentence that contains every single letter of the alphabet at least once. For example, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a pangram, because it uses the letters A-Z at least once (case is irrelevant). I'm…
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Correct way of removing the last object from an array within an If statement

I have written a script to check whether a sentence is a pangram or not. I am trying to remove the last element in an array. In order to create a gramatically correct sentence e.g. 'X, Y and Z.' I have tried using .pop() which as I understand…
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pangram problem from exorcism.io, python track, why doesn't my solution work?

def is_pangram(sentence): alf = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'] sentence = sentence.lower() for x in alf: if x not in sentence: return False …
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Testing for pangram

I have seen a way of testing whether a string is a pangram -- a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet -- but I didn't quite understand it. I want to know why my way isn't working. def is_pangram(string) alpha = ("a".."z").to_a i = 0 …
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Why doesn't lists:all work for pangram in erlang

Can someone explain to me why this code below for solution to pangram in Erlang work ? 139> Sentence. "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" 140> lists:all(lists:seq($a, $z), fun(X) -> lists:member(X, Sentence) end). ** exception error: no function clause…
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Finding shortest list that contains all letters from a specific list of words. (Pangrams)

I'm trying to find the fewest amount of words in a list that would make a Pangram. I.E contains all letters of the alphabet. I can find words that contain a certain amount of letters that I've taken from another post but if I was looking for the…
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Pangram detector not recognizing every pangram

I've written a pangram detector in Java. Some of the test cases are giving the wrong answer, for example: "We promptly judged antique ivory buckles for the next prize". public class Solution { public static void main(String[] args) { /*…
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -65

i am trying to solve this question https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/pangrams and here's my code import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import java.text.*; import java.math.*; import java.util.regex.*; public class Pangram { public static…
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Code to tell whether a string is a Pangram or not?

import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class Solution { public static final int n = 26; public int check(String arr) { if (arr.length() < n) { return -1; } for (char c = 'A'; c <= 'Z'; c++) { …
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