How to get total number from a number string using reduce?

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like on the question’s title: how to get a total number from a string of numbers using reduce? now I’m aware of other ways to get the result but I’m more interested to understand the reduce() more

to solve this I tried this

total="1234"; console.log(total.split("").reduce((x,y) => y+=parseInt(x),Number(0))); 

"43210"

the result was string, I tried parseInt() instead of Number() but the result was the same
also, I tried to remove the accumulator 0 but the result was string too

"4321"

how to get the reduce accumulate the array values as ints?

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I recommend another intermediate function, namely a .map(). So the part before the reduce call should be total.split("").map(x => parseInt(x)). I think you’ll find the reducer a bit less infuriating once you’re dealing with a sane type.

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Hi, it seems that you missed a parenthesis, because the acummulator 0 is being concatenated as the second argument of the console.log function, instead of being the second argument of the reduce function.

As I said, the only problem is a pair of parenthesis to agrupate the function paramether:

  total="1234"; 
  console.log(total.split("").reduce(
    ((y,x)=> y+=parseInt(x)),Number(0)));

// 10
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const total="1234";
console.log([...total].reduce((sum, num) => sum += +num, 0)); // 10

You also had your x and y parameters reversed. It is always better to name your variables in a way that describes what they represent. x and y do not describe anything and make it harder to see syntax and logic errors.

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So put plus becides the array element would cast it to int?

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like up there how to get the same result with brute force way

var value = 2568,
    sum = 0;

while (value) {
    sum += value % 10;
    value = Math.floor(value / 10);
}

console.log(sum);

now how to do this on one line as return

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one issue is here.
if I write (acc, cur) => cur += parseInt(acc) do you see the issue in the callback?

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No, what is the issue on that?

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you are using parseInt on the first parameter, the accumulator acc, which if you did things alright should already be a number, not on the current element of the array cur

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I don’t know why that happens but return a “43210” string

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the accumulator is the value returned from previous callback call
so, when acc “0”, cur is “1”
cur + parseInt(acc) is returned and acc becomes "10", then cur is “2”, and now it is returned "210" and so on