Pig Latin - How does the while loop end?

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Hello,

Can someone Kindly explain how does this while loop end if there are only consonants and no vowel in the argument (arr)?
As far as i understand,
The loop starts at charAt(0) —> shift() it —> push() it into the SAME array (strArr).
How does the loop end if there are no vowels in the word and the challenge needs me to check for that condition also.

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Your code so far


function translatePigLatin(str) {
    var strArr = [];
    var tmpChar;

    // check if the char is consonant using RegEx
    function isConsonant(char) {
        return !/[aeiou]/.test(char);
    }

    // return initial str + "way" if it starts with vowel
    // if not - convert str to array
    if (!isConsonant(str.charAt(0)))
        return str + "way";
    else
        strArr = str.split("");

    // push all consonats to the end of the array
    while (isConsonant(strArr[0])) {
        tmpChar = strArr.shift();
        strArr.push(tmpChar);
    }
 // convert array to string and concatenate "ay" at the end  
 return strArr.join("")+"ay";
}

// test here
translatePigLatin("consonant");

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this is checking if the first letter of the array is a consonant, if it is then it is removed from be beginning of the array and added at the end , and then the new first letter is tested, and keeps going till the first letter is a vowel

if there are no vowels it is an infinite loop

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How should i modify the code then?
Since the challenge requires the code MUST BE ABLE TO HANDLE WORDS WITHOUT VOWELS

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check if there is any vowel before the loop then

the simplest way you could use is a regex

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Awesome.
Thank You so much @ILM.