Adding stuff all at once

JavaScript
1

Hey guys, I have a question.
I have found a solution and I would like to work it through.
How can I add my variable replacer all at once instead of once every iteration?
Thanks.

  **Your code so far**


function spinalCase(str) {
const regex = /\s/g
console.log(str);
for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
  const addMe = '-'
  if (str[i].toUpperCase() === str[i]) {
    const replacer = addMe + str[i];
    console.log(str.replace(str[i], replacer).toLowerCase());
  }

}
}

spinalCase("thisIsSpinalTap");

/* loop over str
if there an upperCase letter
replace letter with a '-' and a smaller case letter or add '-' before the letter and then lowerCase string.
if there isn't replace spaces with '-'.
*/

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.51 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Spinal Tap Case

Link to the challenge:

2

I’d focus on getting this code to pass first - it isn’t quite there. Once you do that, then you can clean up the code.

3

I am sorry, I am a bit confused by your answer. I think I need to figure it out and it should pass.

After I add another if.

4

I thought this meant that you thought that you had a solution, lol

You have two big problems.

  1. your function doesn’t return anything

  2. you are logging and then throwing away the result of the replace

5

Because it is not quite there yet so I don’t want to return, I console.log.

I have the issue that I asked the question about, I believe if I solve it I should continue and I will pass the challenge, but I am not sure how to figure out the question I asked, so I have come here.

6

And my answer to that is that I would stick with a loop and get an approach with a loop working first.

Your output in the console looks like this

thisIsSpinalTap
this-isspinaltap
thisis-spinaltap
thisisspinal-tap

because of this

From String.prototype.replace() - JavaScript | MDN

The replace() method returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement .

…

The original string is left unchanged.

7

I made some changes but I am still stuck. I’ll try to think it over, Thanks.

8

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