What I am realizing is that I need to figure out why this prop comes back as "undefined" when I try to access them. Because of that I am unable to determine the index location of the duplicates.

Thanks Johan, I thought they were all the same because this is the input array I am receiving. This is my first time working with symbols in this way. I'm curious why they are represented in this manner rather than the actual symbols.

Input Array:

[
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(),
Symbol()
]

How do I acess the actual content of the symbol in order to differentiate them?

Since I'm using a hash map to determine duplicates, I will end up having a symbol within a symbol?

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I am console logging the following to understand what is going on:

Type of elements in input array: symbol

My HashMap: I do see that it records a second entry for one of the symbols. Though I can't differentiate it myself visually.

valueMap {
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 2,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1,
[Symbol()]: 1
}

I iterate over the hash map to find and return the prop that contains 2 and set that prop equal to a variable, and the console log it, this is where my logic seems to be breaking at the moment.

Duplicate is undefined (meant to be return value) as a undefined (meant to be data type of the value)

JS Version -
The spec says there should only be 1 duplicate in each input.

During the random tests I receive an input array containing a list of 28 duplicate symbols "symbol()". Weirdly, it's my current understanding that the point of a symbol is that it should be unique.

Can anyone point me in the direction of what I am not understanding or how to approach this? Thank you!

Well, I figured out what was wrong. Turns out there's a differeance between .substring() and .substr() in JS. Check it out if you're troubleshooting and are unaware of the differeance.

Wow, your solution made me realize there is a differeance between .substring() and .substr().

I had no idea you can import libraries into CodeWars. Thanks for showing me that.

I ran into this as well. Your numbers are returning as strings in your return array instead of as numbers. You need to find a way to convert those strings into numbers into a new array, and then return that resulting array. ['2', '4', '0'] => [2,4,0]

Wow, really had to dissect this solution to understand how it was getting to the solution. How in the world do you think this way. Genius!

Found a typo in the instructions. "You have a* function with one side of the DNA..."

Yes, you do.

Ah, makes sense. Thank you.

I am wondering why the variable "s" above is delcared using "var" as opposed to "let" seeing as though it's value will change throughout the lifecycle of the function. Can anyone please explain?