From d6ba50ae665eb0f56752f231d9f10f9174e3e95c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: omarshams97 <46492810+omarshams97@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:49:39 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update palindrome.js

Answer to Q1
---
 tasks/1. Palindrome check/palindrome.js | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tasks/1. Palindrome check/palindrome.js b/tasks/1. Palindrome check/palindrome.js
index fb585eb..084c283 100644
--- a/tasks/1. Palindrome check/palindrome.js	
+++ b/tasks/1. Palindrome check/palindrome.js	
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 export function isPalindrome(inputString) {
-  // TODO: write your code here
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+  //RegExp to remove unwanted characters from input string 
+  var re = /[\W_]/g;
+  //turning all characters to lowercase and using RegExp to get rid of unwanted characters 
+  var lowRegStr = inputString.toLowerCase().replace(re, '');
+  //spliting the string into individual characters, reversing the character positions (first character becomes last, last becoms first ect) then recombining them into a string 
+  var reverseStr = lowRegStr.split('').reverse().join(''); 
+  //if the reverse string is equal to the intial it is a palindrome and return true, If not return false.
+  return reverseStr === lowRegStr;
+}