Help with the Mutations algorithm

1

Hi.

I’m stuck at this challenge. My idea is to return false if there are no matches, or true if all letters are found, but for some reason I can’t return the value I need (false).

Do you know why this doesn’t work?

Here is my code:

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function mutation(arr) {
  var firstWord = arr[0].split('');
  var secondWord = arr[1].split('');

  secondWord.forEach(function(character) {
    if (firstWord.indexOf(character) === -1) {
      return false;
    }
  });

  return true;
}

mutation(["hello", "hey"]);
3

There is both String.indexOf() and Array.indexOf(), so splitting is Okay.

Just as you said, I’ve just found out that you can’t break out of forEach, say I wanted to break it on the first falsy value of indexOf.

You can do exactly this with .every(), which is quite odd !

4

It turns out I was trying to return the value from within a callback function, which is what caused the weird behavior.

Thank you, @P1xt and @Mizu, you were very helpful, specially for the .every() tip. That method is awesome.

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