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CodeWars: Extract last names of people named Michael
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ASSIGNMENT | |
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Given a text, for example: | |
const inputText = "Michael, how are you? - Cool, how is John Williamns and Michael Jordan? I don't know but Michael Johnson is fine. Michael do you still score points with LeBron James, Michael Green AKA Star and Michael Wood?"; | |
get an array of last names of people named Michael. The result should be: | |
["Jordan", "Johnson", "Green", "Wood"] | |
Notes: | |
First name will always be Michael with upper case 'M'. | |
There will always be a space character between 'Michael' and last name. | |
Last name will always be one word, starting with an upper-case letter and continuing with lower-case letters. | |
There will always be at least one 'Micheal' with a valid last name in the input text. | |
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SOLUTION | |
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function getMichaelLastName(inputText) { | |
let regEx = /Michael\s[A-Z][a-z]+/g; | |
let arrFullNames = inputText.match(regEx); //array with filtered results | |
let secondNames = arrFullNames.map(el => el.replace('Michael ', '')); | |
return secondNames; | |
} |
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