Palindrome. What am I missing?

When I try and use this code it tells me:
“TypeError: together.reverse is not a function. (In ‘together.reverse()’, ‘together.reverse’ is undefined)”

I am obviously miss understanding something here, but even with research it’s just not clicking. Could someone explain why the code is wrong?

Here’s my code so far.

function palindrome(str) {
let newStr = str.toLowerCase().match(/[a-z0-9]/g);
let together = newStr.join('');
let backwards = together.reverse();
if (together === backwards) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

palindrome("eye");
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function palindrome(str) {
  let newStr = str.toLowerCase().match(/[a-z0-9]/g);
  console.log(newStr);
  let together = newStr.join('');
  console.log(together);
  let backwards = together.reverse();
  if (together === backwards) {
    return true;
  } else {
    return false;
  }
}

palindrome("eye");
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Oh my goodness thank you so much!
It still took a minute but I think I understand now.
.reverse() would only work on an array, so I needed to do that before .join(’’).

I ended up with this:

function palindrome(str) {
let newStr = str.toLowerCase().match(/[a-z0-9]/g);
let together = newStr.join(’’);
let flip = newStr.reverse();
let backwards = flip.join(’’);
if (together === backwards) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

palindrome(“eye”);

I little wordy but it works!
Thank you again :smiley:

Some logging statements and verifying what methods work on what types of things will get you far. Good work on the fix!

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