/** * What is a palindrome? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome * Receives a string and returns whether it can be rearranged to become a palindrome or not * The string can only be a palindrome if the count of ALL characters is even or if the ONLY ONE character count is odd * Input is a string * **/ export const palindromeRearranging = (str) => { // check that input is a string if (typeof str !== 'string') { return 'Not a string' } // Check if is a empty string if (!str) { return 'Empty string' } // First obtain the character count for each character in the string and store it in an object. // Filter the object's values to only the odd character counts. const charCounts = [...str].reduce((counts, char) => { counts[char] = counts[char] ? counts[char] + 1 : 1 return counts }, {}) // If the length of the resulting array is 0 or 1, the string can be a palindrome. return ( Object.values(charCounts).filter((count) => count % 2 !== 0).length <= 1 ) } // testing // > palindromeRearranging('aaeccrr') // true // > palindromeRearranging('leve') // false