A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the alphabet. This is one way to determine if a sentence is a pangram using RETRO. First, define a string containing the alphabet: ~~~ 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 'FULL s:const ~~~ Then a blank string of the same length for the test data: ~~~ '__________________________ 'TEST s:const ~~~ Now a word to do the actual test. ~~~ :s:pangram? (s-f) '__________________________ &TEST #26 copy s:to-lower [ c:letter? ] s:filter [ dup $a - &TEST + store ] s:for-each &TEST &FULL s:eq? ; ~~~ Breaking this down, the first line: '__________________________ &TEST #26 copy Copies a blank string over the TEST string. Then: s:to-lower [ c:letter? ] s:filter Converts the string to lowercase and strips out anything that's not a letter. Then a quick iteration over each character: [ dup $a - &TEST + store ] s:for-each Reduces the letter to an index into the TEST string and stores the letter at the appropriate spot. And finally: &TEST &FULL s:eq? ; Just compares the TEST and FULL strings to get the result. Here's a couple of test cases: ~~~ 'Hello_world! s:pangram? 'The_quick_brown_fox_jumped_over_the_lazy_dogs. s:pangram? ~~~