Thanks! Can confirm it's resolved for me.

Thank you, I think I fixed it now. The random tests import the HashMap themselves.

The third sentence in the kata states: "There's a preloaded dictionary called alpha which you can use. Keys are lower case letters and the space."

like I said, print

how did you reproduce that, what is the case that crashes?

I can reproduce it just fine. Just run the same case. You're not running a DIFFERENT case from the one that crashes, are you?

error didn't appear befor adding in this so I'm pretty sure that's it and I can't reproduce the error on my machine because it passes all the basic tests:

 if(word == "!" || word == "," || word == ".")
    {
        result += word;
    }

to be fair they say "punctuation marks" .. but you should note that they're not any different from space.

if you think you know where it is then you should find out whether that is the case before you do anything else. don't guess, that doesn't let you narrow things down.

it didn't solve the issue

I (think I) know whitch part of the code creates the error I just don't know why

kata description doesn't say anything about those characters. makes no sense to have those in your code.

and this is the code that makes this error appear (word is always a string):

 if(word == "!" || word == "," || word == ".")
    {
        result += word;
    }

didn't say debugger. print goes a long way.

I'm a new c++ programmer, I haven't ever used a debugger, is there a guide you consider good (for me)?