Intermediate Algorithm Scripting: Diff Two Arrays

JavaScript
1

Hello there,

I’ve been stuck for some hours with this challenge, and even though I’ve come to a solution, the code still shows as invalid.
I’ve tried it outside of the course’s console and it seems to work fine, so I was wondering if I did something wrong.

function diffArray(arr1, arr2) {
  var newArr = [];
  // Same, same; but different.
  var sortArr = arr1.concat(arr2).sort();
  var counts = {};
  for (var i = 0; i < sortArr.length; i++){
    var num = sortArr[i];
    counts[num] = counts[num] ? counts[num] + 1 : 1;
  }
  for(var item in counts){
    if (counts[item] == 1){
      newArr.push(item);
    }
  }
  return newArr;
}

diffArray([1, 2, 3, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);

Getting the following errors:
[1, 2, 3, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] should return [4] .
[1, "calf", 3, "piglet"], [1, "calf", 3, 4] should return ["piglet", 4] .
[1, "calf", 3, "piglet"], [7, "filly"] should return [1, "calf", 3, "piglet", 7, "filly"]

My first guess was that the tutorial was being picky for not returning the array in the same order, but straight from the exercise notes it reads: You can return the array with its elements in any order.

Any input is welcome.

Thanks

2

Just looking at this first test, I see that you are returning ['4'] instead of [4].

3

Thanks for the reply Ariel.

While I finally used .filter() instead, I’ll dig into that code to see why numbers are being passed as strings to the array.