Basically while the second argument is not true, you will have to remove the first element from the left of the array that was passed as the first argument.
You can use Array.shift() or filter that you should be more familiar with to solve this problem in a few lines of code.
Shift returns the element that was removed which we don't really need, all we need is the modified array that is left.
If you still can't figure out how to solve it with shift, then try solving it with filter, and check how filter works, if you become familiar with it, then you can make the code with shift.
Solution ahead!
function drop(arr, func) {
// Drop them elements.
var times = arr.length;
for (var i = 0; i < times; i++) {
if (func(arr[0])) {
break;
} else {
arr.shift();
}
}
return arr;
}
drop([1, 2, 3], function(n) {return n < 3; });
- Create a for loop to check each element.
- Then check for the function given if true then stop, otherwise remove that element.
- return the array.
function drop(arr, func) {
return arr.slice(arr.findIndex(func) >= 0 && arr.findIndex(func), arr.length);
}
drop([1, 2, 3, 4], function(n) {return n >= 3;});
- Use ES6
findIndex()
function to find the index of the element that passes the condition - Slice the array from the found index until the end
- There is one edge case! if the condition is not met against any of the elements 'findIndex' will return
-1
which messes up the input toslice()
. In this case use a simple conditional operator to returnfalse
instead of-1
. For more info see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Conditional_Operator
function drop(arr, func) {
while(!func(arr[0])){
arr.shift();
}
return arr;
}
drop([1, 2, 3], function(n) {return n < 3; });
- Use a while loop with
Array.shift()
to continue checking and dropping the first element of the array until the function returns true. - Return the trimmed array.
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