How to reverse word order in a sentence

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I wrote a code to reverse the word order in a sentence. The test sentence was in quotation marks and I need to have quotation marks in my solution but can't seem to add it in properly....

ex.
Test: "Go to the coffeeshop"

my code returns this: coffeeshop the to Go

But it needs to return this: "coffeeshop the to Go"

What I have tried:

Hi! I wrote a code for reversing word order in a sentence (without using the reverse method) and got this:

JavaScript

function reverseSent(sentence){
  var result = " ";
  var splitStr = sentence.split(" ");

  for (var i = splitStr.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
    result += splitStr[i] + " ";
    var words = result;
  }
  return words;
}

-the order is right, but I'm missing the quotation marks at the beginning and end of the sentence. How can I add them in?

Posted 26-Mar-17 9:24am

Member 13085581

Updated 26-Mar-17 14:33pm

Bryian Tan

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Bryian Tan 26-Mar-17 15:41pm

Can you cheat? return '"' + words + '"'; :)

Member 13085581 26-Mar-17 19:40pm

I tried but I get a space at the beginning and the end in the word and the quotation mark :/
so my return would be: " coffeeshop the to Go "
and I need it to be: "coffeeshop the to Go"

Bryian Tan 26-Mar-17 20:09pm

Well, that can be arrange :)

function reverseSent(sentence){
  var result = "";
  var splitStr = sentence.split(" ");

  for (var i = splitStr.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
  
   if (i ==splitStr.length - 1) {
    	  result += "";
    }
    else {
    	result += " ";
    }
  
    result += splitStr[i];// + " ";
    var words = result;
  }
  return '"' + words + '"';
}

Bryian Tan 26-Mar-17 20:12pm

by the way, hod did you pass in the "coffeeshop the to Go" into the function?

like this --> reverseSent("\"coffeeshop the to Go\""); ?

Member 13085581 27-Mar-17 0:18am

yeah! This helped a lot! Thank you!

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Chris Maunder · Answer 1 · 2017-03-26T14:33:00

Solution 1

JavaScript

function reverseSent(sentence){
  return sentence.split(/\b/).reverse().join('')
}

Posted 26-Mar-17 14:33pm

Chris Maunder772.8K