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// Represent a small bilingual lexicon as a Javascript object in the following fashion {"merry":"god", "christmas":"jul", "and":"och", "happy":gott", "new":"nytt", "year":"år"} and use it to translate your Christmas cards from English into Swedish. | |
var greetings = { | |
"merry": "god", | |
"christmas": "jul", | |
"and": "och", | |
"happy": "gott", | |
"new": "nytt", | |
"year": "ar" | |
}; | |
var swedish = ""; | |
function translate(phase) { | |
for (var name in greetings) { | |
if (greetings.hasOwnProperty(name)) { | |
var sentence = phase.split(/\s/); | |
for (var i = 0; i <= sentence.length; i++) { | |
if (sentence[i] === name) { | |
swedish += greetings[name] + " "; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
swedish = swedish.trim(); | |
swedish = swedish += "!"; | |
return swedish[0].toUpperCase() + swedish.slice(1); | |
} | |
console.log(translate("merry christmas and happy new year")); |
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