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      1 # Etl
      2 
      3 Welcome to Etl on Exercism's Perl 5 Track.
      4 If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
      5 
      6 ## Instructions
      7 
      8 We are going to do the `Transform` step of an Extract-Transform-Load.
      9 
     10 ## ETL
     11 
     12 Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) is a fancy way of saying, "We have some crufty, legacy data over in this system, and now we need it in this shiny new system over here, so
     13 we're going to migrate this."
     14 
     15 (Typically, this is followed by, "We're only going to need to run this
     16 once." That's then typically followed by much forehead slapping and
     17 moaning about how stupid we could possibly be.)
     18 
     19 ## The goal
     20 
     21 We're going to extract some Scrabble scores from a legacy system.
     22 
     23 The old system stored a list of letters per score:
     24 
     25 - 1 point: "A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "L", "N", "R", "S", "T",
     26 - 2 points: "D", "G",
     27 - 3 points: "B", "C", "M", "P",
     28 - 4 points: "F", "H", "V", "W", "Y",
     29 - 5 points: "K",
     30 - 8 points: "J", "X",
     31 - 10 points: "Q", "Z",
     32 
     33 The shiny new Scrabble system instead stores the score per letter, which
     34 makes it much faster and easier to calculate the score for a word. It
     35 also stores the letters in lower-case regardless of the case of the
     36 input letters:
     37 
     38 - "a" is worth 1 point.
     39 - "b" is worth 3 points.
     40 - "c" is worth 3 points.
     41 - "d" is worth 2 points.
     42 - Etc.
     43 
     44 Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to transform the legacy data
     45 format to the shiny new format.
     46 
     47 ## Notes
     48 
     49 A final note about scoring, Scrabble is played around the world in a
     50 variety of languages, each with its own unique scoring table. For
     51 example, an "E" is scored at 2 in the Māori-language version of the
     52 game while being scored at 4 in the Hawaiian-language version.
     53 
     54 ## Source
     55 
     56 ### Created by
     57 
     58 - @bistik
     59 
     60 ### Contributed to by
     61 
     62 - @darksuji
     63 - @kytrinyx
     64 - @m-dango
     65 - @rfilipo
     66 
     67 ### Based on
     68 
     69 The Jumpstart Lab team - http://jumpstartlab.com