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Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] Hwk6 Lower & Upper cases
Date: Tuesday, 21 Apr 2020, 11:11:15


    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Could the Boggle dictionary contain both "Example" and "example"?
    >
    > Since "the Boggle words found are printed out in alphabetical order, in
    > lower case," do we have to change every character to lower case when we
    > store the word in the trie?

As should be clear from Note (4) of the specification

  * Store in the trie only those pointers corresponding to lower-case letters
    (worth at most 5 points).  ...

all letters in the dictionary are converted to lower case
before being inserted in the trie.

--Stan-
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