I just happened to see some examples of how this function worked yesterday otherwise my code would've been a lot longer im sure 😅

Haha, same

Same. I also overcomplicated it

Mutating an argument is the worst thing you can do.

Agreed, I first solved it in Python and while I am fluent with most of the string methods after years of Python, I had forgotten about this one in absence of practice and solved it with less advanced features and alorithmic logic. Built-in methods are just masked hardwork of creators, and they can indeed be less efficient in cases and you would needa use your own logic!

Damn it! lmao I didn't know that method exists, Nice!! I'm going to add this to my future references thank you very much!

For those who did not resolve it that way... At the end of the day those like us who resolved this challenge with an actual algorithm, are the ones who create built-in methods. Actually built-in functions are just a mask hiding a larger code and guess what... Built-in methods might be much more unefficient than a customized algorithm...

Less lines of code does not mean good code

To make myself feel better I'd say, those of us who actually wrote an algorithm are geniuses too, instead of using built-in functions. :P

RIGHT!!! I thought I had finally found the most basic way to the solution with a ternary operator. But that good ole 'truthy' statement....lol

Wow, how can I forget something so basic... And here I thought using RegEx was being clever of me 😂

Thank you for this! took my understanding of parseInt a step further. Awesome.

not knowing this easy method makes me go longway to find the solution

Same!