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Confirm the Ending

Confirm the Ending

🌻 Intermediate Code Solution:

(Declarative approach)

function confirmEnding(str, target) {
  // "Never give up and good luck will find you."
  // -- Falcor
  
  return str.slice(str.length - target.length) === target;
}

confirmEnding("He has to give me a new name", "name");

🚀 Run Code

Code Explanation:

• First we use the slice method copy the string.
• In order to get the last characters in str equivalent to the target's length we use the slice method.
• The first parameter inside the slice method is the starting index and the second parameter would be the ending index.
• For example str.slice(10, 17) would return give me.
• In this case we only include one parameter which it will copy everything from the starting index.
• We substract the length of str and the length of target, that way, we shall get the last remaining characters equivalent to the target's length.
• Finally we compare the return result of slice to target and check if they have the same characters.

Relevant Links

• String.prototype.slice()