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| # Implement this in such a way that when called below, detect_anagram will result in true or false. | ||
| def canonical(word) | ||
| word = word.upcase | ||
| word.split("").sort.to_s #split into characters, sort alphabetically, push back into one string. |
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String#chars is a bit simpler way to split a string into characters.
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Is that to_s at the end giving you back the string you think it is? Do we even need this method to return a string?
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Ah, each character is individually being converted to a string. Array#join would have been better, although looking back I didn't even need to join the string at all to determine whether or not it was an anagram.
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