Truncate a String (possible bug)

JavaScript
1

Not sure whats happening here. Had a friend even take a look at it and still can’t figure out whats going. I clicked the “get a hint” and still had the same issue. So just for kicks i plugged in one of the solutions, and the same problem persisted: the top two challenges failed.

My code so far


function truncateString(str, num) {
  if(str.length > num && (num > 3)) {
   return str.slice(0, (num - 3)) + '...';
} else if(str.length > num && num <= 3) {
   return str.slice(0, num) + "...";
} else {
  return str;
 }

}
truncateString("A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket", 8);

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Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-algorithm-scripting/truncate-a-string/

2

In this solution you are counting the three dots in the max numbers of characters when they shouldn’t be included - I imagine this is from the Hint a section, those solutions are from a previous version of the challenge

If you post the code you tried we can see what you need to make that work

4

Yeah whats here is whats in the hint, so i originally had this, and the same problem came up.
function truncateString(str, num) {
if(str.length > num) {
if(num <= 3){
str = str.slice(0, num) + “…”
} else {
str = str.slice(0, num - 3) + “…”
}
}
return str;
}

truncateString(“A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket”, 11);

6

awesome, thank you! It looks like the solution is similar to what I originally had. Much appreciated!