Weekly Coding Challenge: Create Phone Number – written in JavaScript

2 min read ~ Hello readers! It’s really important for me to continue my practice and learning. Lately, I have been completing a coding challenge a day with codewars. This helps me keep my skills sharp and see how other devs all over the planet would solve these problems. Being able to see other solutions expands my mind for solving future problems in a clever and efficient way. Today, the problem set focuses on JavaScript. I tried to get a little clever and out of the box with my solution for this so let me know what you think

Create Phone Number

Write a function that accepts an array of 10 integers (between 0 and 9), that returns a string of those numbers in the form of a phone number.

Example:

createPhoneNumber([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0]) // => returns "(123) 456-7890"

The returned format must be correct in order to complete this challenge.
Don’t forget the space after the closing parentheses!

Fun JavaScript Solution:

function createPhoneNumber(numbers){
  let phone = '';
  let phoneSyntax = { 0: '(', 3: ') ', 6: '-' };
  numbers.forEach( (numb, i) => {
    if (phoneSyntax.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
      phone += phoneSyntax[i]
    }
    phone += numb.toString();
  })
  return phone;
}

Another way to write it…

function createPhoneNumber(numbers){
  numbers = numbers.join('');
  return '(' + numbers.substring(0, 3) + ') ' 
      + numbers.substring(3, 6) 
      + '-' 
      + numbers.substring(6);
}

Disclaimer: *Now, as much as I am tempted to use ES8 & ES9 functions to reduce the number of lines in JavaScript, I am always a fan of readable code that others can understand. Therefore, with the JavaScript examples, I will try to write it without fancy functions as much as possible so it can actually be read and absorbed by my readers. All of my solutions are commented to explain my thinking. Of course, they could always be better. Please feel free to share how you would solve it!*

All solutions are also now on my GitHub profile if you want to check out all of the coding challenges I’ve completed so far!

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