Build a Sentence Analyzer - Step 7

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1

Tell us what’s happening:

I don’t understand why it’s not passing the test: “Your getWordCount function should return the correct word count for an empty string, or a string only with spaces.”

Your code so far

function getVowelCount(sentence) {
  const vowels = "aeiou";
  let count = 0;

  for (const char of sentence.toLowerCase()) {
    if (vowels.includes(char)) {
      count++;
    }
  }
  return count;
}

const vowelCount = getVowelCount("Apples are tasty fruits");
console.log(`Vowel Count: ${vowelCount}`);

function getConsonantCount(sentence) {
  const consonants = "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz";
  let count = 0;

  for (const char of sentence.toLowerCase()) {
    if (consonants.includes(char)) {
      count++;
    }
  }
  return count;
}

const consonantCount = getConsonantCount("Coding is fun");
console.log(`Consonant Count: ${consonantCount}`);

function getPunctuationCount(sentence) {
  const punctuations = ".,!?;:-()[]{}\"'–";
  let count = 0;

  for (const char of sentence) {
    if (punctuations.includes(char)) {
      count++;
    }
  }
  return count;
}

const punctuationCount = getPunctuationCount("WHAT?!?!?!?!?");
console.log(`Punctuation Count: ${punctuationCount}`);


// User Editable Region

function getWordCount(sentence) {
  return sentence.trim().split(" ").length;
}

// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build a Sentence Analyzer - Step 7
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/workshop-sentence-analyzer/step-7

2

try to test the function to see what it gives with an empty string
console.log(getWordCount(""));

3

Thanks, I fixed it! It returned 1 when I tried to split the empty array, which makes sense now that I think about it – the empty array is the 1 part.