This project is part of The Odin Project's Ruby course. In this assignment, I implemented a method to count occurrences of specified substrings within a given word or phrase. This project helped deepen my understanding of string manipulation, arrays, and hashes in Ruby.

📝 Project Objective

The goal was to create a method called substrings that takes a word and an array of valid substrings (dictionary) as arguments. The method returns a hash listing each substring found in the original string and the number of times it was found. This project enhanced my skills in string manipulation and algorithm development.

🔧 Features

• Accepts a string input and an array of valid substrings.

• Handles case insensitivity, ensuring accurate substring matching.

• Removes special characters from the input string to focus on words.

• Returns a hash containing each substring found and its corresponding count.

📖 Learnings

• String Manipulation: Improved my ability to process and clean strings by removing special characters.

• Array and Hash Operations: Enhanced my understanding of iterating through arrays and managing hash structures to store results.

• Case Handling: Gained experience in handling case insensitivity for accurate matching.

• Algorithm Development: Practiced developing an algorithm for counting occurrences in a flexible way, allowing for multiple words.

💻 Technologies Used

• Ruby for implementing the functionality of the substrings method.

💡 Acknowledgments

• The Odin Project: For providing the project outline and guidance.