Problem 50948. Identify prime words

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In a Numberphile video on evil primes, Tony Padilla introduced the “Jesus prime” 105,192,119, which is formed by concatenating the positions of the letters of ‘Jesus’ in the English alphabet: 10, 5, 19, 21, 19. In general, a prime word could be defined as a word such that the number formed by concatenating the positions of the letters in the alphabet is prime. 
Write a function that takes a string and identifies prime words. It should delete apostrophes and hyphens (e.g. “don’t” = “dont”, “un-ionized” = “unionized”) and treat other punctuation as spaces. The function should return an array of 0’s and 1’s.

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William on 14 Mar 2021

Chris,
In test suite problem 25, there seems to be an issue with the question mark after 'Africa'. The word Africa itself is a prime word, but the solution marks it as non-prime. Since the question mark is usually considered punctuation, I treated it as a space.

ChrisR on 14 Mar 2021

Thanks William. I fixed the test (and my own code).

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