Tell us what’s happening:
My code works for all the return true criteria but none of the return false criteria.
Also what does /[\W_]/ stand for? (I looked at the hint and everyone posted this in their replace statement. Is this short for all non-alphanumeric characters?
Thanks
Your code so far
function palindrome(str) {
var newstr = str.replace(/[\W_]/g, "");
newstr.toLowerCase();
var array = newstr.split("");
var newArray = [];
newArray = array.reverse();
if(array == newArray){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
palindrome("eye");
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In javascript objects (thus array as well) are reference to the data.
This means that when assigning a variable to and object, you are assigning “the address” where the data is stored inside the memory.
So if two arrays are pointing to the same address will change the same data:
const a = [1, 2, 3]; // imagine I have this data;
const b = a // now b is pointing to the same "address" of where a is pointing
/*
changing any values of b will change a as well,
since they are pointing to the same data
*/
b[1] = 'test' // [1, 'test', 3];
console.log('a is ', a) // a is [1, 'test', 3]
This behaviour translate also in the equality operator:
two object are equals if they are the same object, not if they have the same values:
const a = [1];
const b = [1];
a == b // false --> they are two different objects;
---
const a = [1];
const b = a;
a == b // true
So you cannot compare two arrays values by doing the equal operation like you did:
if(array == newArray)
because you are not comparing the values inside, but their reference (and in this case they are the same reference so it will always be true)
