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I agree, even though this is harshly put. The problem presented here is quite incoherent and I wish the author would revise the question to make it more easier to understand & digest.

It is just a comment on the Kata and its relation to what can occur on the job, as it were. As I said, this is a game. thank you for playing.

I really couldn't figure out the appropriate label for this comment or what it aims for! What are you trying to theorize here?

I apparently misinterpretted the instructions, i was solving a different problem. Thanks anyway

The idea for this one is good and it is a good lesson for really understanding requirements and how some requirements are lacking. If you have done any professional coding you know what I am talking about. I wouldn't expect this from someone who has had this done in the 'real' world. The creator has said that people have completed it so that should be good enough instead of offering better examples that one would be able to ask in a professional environment. But hey, this is a game. It was a good puzzle, even if the hard part was someone's ego.

Re-read the error and it has been decided that the instructions are not clear on this. It GOT the string starting with owi... so that is your code. but it expected a string starting with wlw...owi...

The string you are trying to get is the FIRST longest consecutive string. to pass that test you want it to be index[0] + index[1].

In the test index[0] = 11 characters while index[2] has only 10.

I hope this helps!

/signed on Java missing a spread operator.

Eligant solution and I learned from it. You Rock!

This seems rather verbose and while I thought of doing it this way other formatter solutions seem cleaner or clearer. I am guessing that this is pretty fast though since no other utils.* are being created. GG