new to coding I'm trying to make a function that makes "abbreviations/acronyms" of words, e.g. 'I love you' -> 'ily'. I've tried rewriting the code in many ways but console.log only shows me the first letter of the first given word.
function makeAbbr(words) {
let abbrev = words[0];
let after = 0;
let i = 0;
for (const letter of words) {
if (letter === '') {
i = words.indexOf('', after);
abbrev += words[i + 1];
}
after++;
}
return abbrev;
}
const words = 'a bc def';
let result = makeAbbr(words);
console.log(result)Without using arrays. But you really should learn about them.
function makeAbbr(words) {
words = words.trim();
const length = words.length;
let acronym = words[0];
for(let i = 1; i < length; i++) {
if(words[i - 1] === ' ' && words[i] !== ' ') {
acronym += words[i];
}
}
return acronym;
}
console.log(makeAbbr('I love you'));
console.log(makeAbbr('I love you'));
console.log(makeAbbr(' I love you '));And here's the version for GottZ
function w(char) {
char = char.toLocaleLowerCase();
const coll = Intl.Collator('en');
const cmpA = coll.compare(char, 'a');
const cmpZ = coll.compare(char, 'z');
return cmpA >= 0 && cmpZ <= 0;
}
function makeAbbr(words) {
words = words.trim();
const length = words.length;
if(!length) return '';
let acronym = words[0];
for(let i = 1; i < length; i++) {
if(!w(words[i - 1]) && w(words[i])) {
acronym += words[i];
}
}
return acronym;
}
console.log(makeAbbr('I love you'));
console.log(makeAbbr('I love you'));
console.log(makeAbbr(' I love you '));
console.log(makeAbbr(' \tI ... ! love \n\r .you '));
console.log(makeAbbr(' \tI ... ! Löve \n\r .ÿou '));here is my implementation of your function: Split the sentence into an array, get the first letter of each word and join them into one string.
const makeAbbr = string => string.split(' ').map(word => word[0]).join('');
console.log(makeAbbr('stack overflow'));
console.log(makeAbbr('i love you'));`
Since you wanted something using your approach, try this (code is commented)
function makeAbbr(words) {
let abbrev = "";
for (let i = 0; i < words.length - 1; i++) { // Loop through every character except the last one
if (i == 0 && words[i] != " ") { // Add the first character
abbrev += words[i];
} else if (words[i] == " " && words[i + 1] != " ") { // If current character is space and next character isn't
abbrev += words[i + 1];
}
}
return abbrev.toLowerCase();
}
const words = 'a bc def';
let result = makeAbbr(words);
console.log(result)