Title Case a Sentence - something's off

JavaScript
1

The console shows the letters being the way the exercise wants, but it’s incorrect.

 let x = str.split(' ')  
  let y
for(let i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
  y = x[i][0].toUpperCase() + x[i].substring(1).toLowerCase()
    console.log(y)
  };
  
return y  
}
2

You aren’t logging what you think you are logging:

function titleCase(str) {
  const splitStr = str.split(' ');
  let outputStr;
  for (let i = 0; i < splitStr.length; i++) {
    outputStr = splitStr[i][0].toUpperCase() + splitStr[i].substring(1).toLowerCase();
  }

  return outputStr
}

console.log(titleCase("I'm a little tea pot"));
3

I’m almost there, it seems, with this code.

const splitStr = str.split(' ');
  let outputStr = '';
  for (let i = 0; i < splitStr.length; i++) {
  outputStr += splitStr[i][0].toUpperCase() + splitStr[i].substring(1).toLowerCase()
    
  };
return outputStr;
};

This is what the console is showing:

I'mALittleTeaPot

Can anyone give me a hint (not the answer). Thanks!!

4

It looks like the words don’t have spaces between them, right?

5

So, where do I create the space…

6

It needs to happen it between the places where you stick two words together, right? Where are you doing that?

7

Okay, so I did the following:

  const splitStr = str.split(' ');
  let outputStr = '';
  for (let i = 0; i < splitStr.length; i++) {
  outputStr +=` ${splitStr[i][0].toUpperCase()}${splitStr[i].substring(1).toLowerCase()}`
}

And the console is showing:

I'm A Little Tea Pot

But it’s still not good. Maybe extra spaces.

8

Yup. You are close. You have one space too many.

9

So, the only way, as of now, that I’ve been able to create those spaces is by there being a space between a backtick and a curly bracket but still not good…

10

What’s happening right now is that you are putting an extra space at the beginning of the string. Do you want a space before the first word?

12

I used this regex, and I cannot see the space anymore, but still…

let newString = outputStr.replace(/\s/,' ').trim();
13

Got it. Thanks for the help.

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16

Hmm, I see. It was the first time I used the trim method. Just looked it up on MDN. Thanks.

17

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