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* CODERBYTE BEGINNER CHALLENGE *
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* Alphabet Soup *
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* Using the JavaScript language, have the function FirstFactorial(num) take the num *
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* parameter being passed and return the factorial of it (ie. if num = 4, *
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* return (4 * 3 * 2 * 1)). For the test cases, the range will be between 1 and 18. * *
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* Have the function AlphabetSoup(str) take the str string parameter being passed *
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* and return the string with the letters in alphabetical order *
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* (ie. hello becomes ehllo). Assume numbers and punctuation symbols will not be *
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* included in the string. *
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* SOLUTION *
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* You can either use an iterative or recursive function to solve this challenge. *
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* I am going to use an interative function. I am going to start with a value of 1 *
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* for my total and then keep multiplying it by the next number until I reach num. *
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* This function needs to account for a possible outlier - One and Zero. *
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* If num is 1 or 0 then the answer is 1. By setting tot to value of 1 at *
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* initialization, then it guaranteees that 1 will be returned if num is ever 0 or 1. *
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* The Array has a built-in sort function but String does not. The first step is to *
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* convert the string to an Array and sort it in alphabetical order. Then covert the *
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* Array back to a string with the toString() function. The last step is to remove *
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* the commans that separate each character. *
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* Steps for solution *
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* 1) Set var tot to 1. *
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* 2) Loop from 2 to num and multiple tot by num to get new tot. *
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* 3) Return tot for answer. *
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* 1) Convert string to an array *
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* 2) Sort array in alphabetical order *
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* 3) Convert array back to a string *
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* 4) Remove comma separators in our string *
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***************************************************************************************/
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function AlphabetSoup(str) {
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return str.split("").sort().join("");
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var myArray = str.split("")
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myArray.sort();
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var newStr = myArray.toString();
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return newStr.replace(/,/g, "");
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}

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