Count the words in Java

Java interview exercise on Streams & lambdas, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Write wordCounts(text) that counts each word of text, case-insensitively: split on anything that is not a letter, drop empty pieces, lower-case, and collect with groupingBy + counting into a Map<String, Long>.

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