Trying a fun problem of replacing vowels in a string with the next vowel in line aka a->e, e->i, i->o, o->u, not accounting for "u". Starting with an array instead of a string. My second loop (to iterate over vowel array elements) is ignoring my "j
var vowelChange = function(vowelArray, stringToChange) {
for (var i = 0; i<stringToChange.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j<vowelArray.length; j++) {
if (stringToChange[i]===vowelArray[j]) {
var newCharacter = vowelArray[j+1]
stringToChange[i] = newCharacter
i++
}
}
}
return stringToChange
};
I'm using node-debug to set breakpoints in a browser, and j is looping to 5 before starting over at 0. I get the correct output, but j should stop at 4...
EDIT
Can somebody explain how I'm using join incorrectly, because I can't get my function to output a string instead of just an array.
var vowelChange = function(vowelArray, stringToChange) {
for (var i = 0; i<stringToChange.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j<vowelArray.length-1; j++) {
if (stringToChange[i]===vowelArray[j]) {
stringToChange[i] = vowelArray[j+1]
break
}
}
}
stringToChange = stringToChange.join('')
return stringToChange
};
var vowels = ['a','e','i','o','u']
var firstName = ['t', 'e', 's', 't']
vowelChange(vowels, firstName)
console.log(firstName)
Assuming vowelArray is 0-indexed...
var vowelChange = function(vowelArray, stringToChange) {
for (var i = 0; i<stringToChange.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j<vowelArray.length - 1; j++) {
if (stringToChange[i]===vowelArray[j]) {
stringToChange[i] = vowelArray[j+1];
break;
}
}
}
return stringToChange
};