I must not understand how push works

JavaScript
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My question is related to: “Basic Algorithm Scripting: Where do I Belong”, but not really a question about the problem.

I was wondering why my code is returning a “3” instead of [40,60,50] or even [40,60],50. Why is it counting the length of arr and num?

My code.

function getIndexToIns(arr, num) {
  let newarr= arr.push(num)
  console.log(newarr)
  return newarr;
}
getIndexToIns([40, 60], 50);

Thanks in advance!

3

.push() returns the length of the array.

If you want to return the array with the pushed value you should just return arr since it gets modified when you use .push().

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Thank you! That makes sense! Helped me understand the other response too!

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