given a string (that is also capitalized) input to a function, how to test whether it includes letters 'a', 'g', 't', and 'c'? in ruby

You can use regular expressions to test whether a given string includes the letters 'a', 'g', 't', and 'c'. Here's an example of how you can do it in Ruby:

main.rb
def includes_specific_letters?(input_string)
  # Use the match? method with a regular expression to test whether the string matches the pattern
  # [agtc]+ - matches any sequence of one or more occurrences of the letters 'a', 'g', 't', and 'c'
  # i - makes the match case-insensitive
  input_string.match?(/[agtc]+/i)
end

# Testing the function
puts includes_specific_letters?("ACGTA") # true
puts includes_specific_letters?("ACGTB") # true
puts includes_specific_letters?("XYZ") # false
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The includes_specific_letters? function checks whether the input string matches the regular expression pattern [agtc]+. The match? method returns true if the string matches the pattern, otherwise false.

Note that the regular expression is case-insensitive, so both uppercase and lowercase versions of the letters 'a', 'g', 't', and 'c' will be matched.

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