viktoriabohomaz/macbeth-analyzer

Ruby Challenges / Analyzing Shakespeare

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Exercise Intro

Difficulty: Easy, but requires isolating an external service during testing.

As a Shakespeare buff, statistics junkie, and Unix lover, Ben finds himself wanting a command-line tool for analyzing Macbeth.

Write a command-line program that prints the number of lines spoken by each character in the play.

Instructions

Sample usage/output (using made-up numbers):

$ ruby lib/macbeth_analyzer.rb
  543 Macbeth
  345 Banquo
  220 Duncan
  (etc.)