Why doesn't my index start at 0?

1

Can anyone tell me why indx in my reduce starts at 1 instead of 0?

Array.prototype.asString = function() {
  return this.join('');  
}

String.prototype.isPalindrome = function() {
  return this == [...this].reverse().join('');
}

var longestPalindrome = function(s) {
  [...s].reduce((acc, current, indx, arr) => {
      var ans = acc;
    
      for(let i=0; i < (arr.length - i ); i++){
        let subStr = arr.asString().substr(indx , arr.length -i);
        ans = (subStr.isPalindrome() && (subStr.length > (acc.length || 0))) ? subStr : ans ;
    }
    
    return ans;
  }
    
),' ' };
2

I believe you have the last two lines reversed:

  } // this really should be closing the function
    
),' ' }; // I believe you meant for this line to be closing the reduce so it should have been },' ');
3

thank you - I was staring at that for over an hour and didn’t see it.
Now I have it like this.

Array.prototype.asString = function() {
  return this.join('');  
}

String.prototype.isPalindrome = function() {
  return String(this) === [...this].reverse().asString();
}

/**
 * @param {string} s
 * @return {string}
 */
function longestPalindrome(s) {
  return [...s].reduce((acc, current, indx, arr) => {
    var ans = acc;
    
    for(let i=0; i < arr.length; i++){
      let subStr = arr.asString().substr(indx , arr.length -i);
      ans = (subStr.isPalindrome() && (subStr.length > ans.length)) ? subStr : ans ;
    }
    return ans;
  }, '');
}
5

Yes, doesn’t it? It’s comparing if the string is the same in reverse.

6

seems to be working.

8 
String.prototype.isPalindrome = function() {
  return this === [...this].reverse().asString();
}
10

yeah === doesn’t seem to work == does though.