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Print if a text is a palindrome

MediumStrings10 min

Write a function checkPalindrome(text) that checks if the string text is a palindrome, prints the answer with console.log and returns it as a boolean.

  • Only Latin letters (a to z, A to Z) and digits (0 to 9) count. Skip every other character: spaces, commas, question marks, underscores and so on.
  • The check is case insensitive: 'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama' is a palindrome.
  • Digits count like letters: '0P' is not a palindrome.
  • A string with no letters and no digits, the empty string too, is a palindrome.
  • Print exactly one line: "<text>" is a palindrome or "<text>" is not a palindrome. Here <text> is the original text, unchanged, inside double quotes.
  • Return true or false.

A regular expression can remove the characters that do not count.

Examples

checkPalindrome('A man, a plan, a canal: Panama')

Returns true

Prints "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" is a palindrome

checkPalindrome('hello')

Returns false

Prints "hello" is not a palindrome

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  1. InputcheckPalindrome('A man, a plan, a canal: Panama')
    Expectedtrue
    Output"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" is a palindrome
  2. InputcheckPalindrome('hello')
    Expectedfalse
    Output"hello" is not a palindrome

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