Mutate an Array Declared with const property question

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#1

Tell us what’s happening:

Hello, I tried to assign values like in the example, but am getting an error.

Your code so far


const s = [5, 7, 2];
function editInPlace() {
  "use strict";
  // change code below this line

  // s = [2, 5, 7]; <- this is invalid
s[0] =2;
s[1]=5;
2[2]=7;
  // change code above this line

}
editInPlace();

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Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/es6/mutate-an-array-declared-with-const

#2

You appear to have a typo on the line above. 2 is not an array.

#3

Damn, didn’t notice. Thank you

#4

s.sort()
that’s it instead of all of this.

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#5

How could you use that to achieve the same result?

#6

When you refer to “that”, what are you talking about specifically?

#7

I’m just wondering, could you use

s.sort()

to achieve the same result?

#8

Yes, in this specific example of s being [5, 7, 2]. If the instructions would have said change [5, 7, 10, 3] to [10, 3, 7, 5], s.sort() would be useless.

#9

Oh, that’s great to know and look into,

Thanks a bunch!

#10

But using sort defeats the whole purpose of the lesson.

#11

You can also use

var x = s.pop();
s.unshift(x);

to bring back some earlier lesson info. it is a little more useful than sort().