From 1dce6620191d591491b1028760356aae559a1498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adelina Moroaca <moroacaadelina@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:12:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add palindrome solution

---
 09_palindromes/palindromes.js      | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 09_palindromes/palindromes.spec.js | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/09_palindromes/palindromes.js b/09_palindromes/palindromes.js
index 8d21018..3d0f4c1 100644
--- a/09_palindromes/palindromes.js
+++ b/09_palindromes/palindromes.js
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
-const palindromes = function () {
-
+const palindromes = function(str) {
+    let strL = str.toString().toLowerCase().toUpperCase().replace(/[.,\/#!$%\^&\*;:{}=\-_`~()]/g,"").replace(/[\W_]+/g, "");
+     let newStr = '';
+    for(i = strL.length; i >= 0; i--){
+        newStr += strL.charAt(i);
+        // console.log(newStr)
+    }
+    if (strL === newStr) {
+        return true;
+    } else {
+        return false;
+    }
 };
-
+palindromes('lid off a daffodil') // true
+palindromes('tacos') // false
 // Do not edit below this line
 module.exports = palindromes;
diff --git a/09_palindromes/palindromes.spec.js b/09_palindromes/palindromes.spec.js
index 90d53e4..d019a7f 100644
--- a/09_palindromes/palindromes.spec.js
+++ b/09_palindromes/palindromes.spec.js
@@ -4,25 +4,30 @@ describe('palindromes', () => {
   test('works with single words', () => {
     expect(palindromes('racecar')).toBe(true);
   });
-  test.skip('works with punctuation ', () => {
+  test('works with punctuation ', () => {
     expect(palindromes('racecar!')).toBe(true);
   });
-  test.skip('works with upper-case letters ', () => {
+  test('works with upper-case letters ', () => {
     expect(palindromes('Racecar!')).toBe(true);
   });
-  test.skip('works with multiple words', () => {
+
+  //de facut
+  test('works with multiple words', () => {
     expect(palindromes('A car, a man, a maraca.')).toBe(true);
   });
-  test.skip('works with multiple words', () => {
+
+  //de facut
+  test('works with multiple words', () => {
     expect(palindromes('Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.')).toBe(true);
   });
-  test.skip('doesn\'t just always return true', () => {
+
+  test('doesn\'t just always return true', () => {
     expect(palindromes('ZZZZ car, a man, a maracaz.')).toBe(false);
   });
-  test.skip('works with numbers in a string', () => {
+  test('works with numbers in a string', () => {
     expect(palindromes('rac3e3car')).toBe(true);
   });
-  test.skip('works with unevenly spaced numbers in a string', () => {
+  test('works with unevenly spaced numbers in a string', () => {
     expect(palindromes('r3ace3car')).toBe(false);
   });
 });