/** * @function checkExceeding * @description - Exceeding words are words where the gap between two adjacent characters is increasing. The gap is the distance in ascii * @param {string} str * @returns {boolean} * @example - checkExceeding('delete') => true, ascii difference - [1, 7, 7, 15, 15] which is incremental * @example - checkExceeding('update') => false, ascii difference - [5, 12, 3, 19, 15] which is not incremental */ const checkExceeding = (str) => { if (typeof str !== 'string') { throw new TypeError('Argument is not a string') } const upperChars = str.toUpperCase().replace(/[^A-Z]/g, '') // remove all from str except A to Z alphabets const adjacentDiffList = [] for (let i = 0; i < upperChars.length - 1; i++) { // destructuring current char & adjacent char by index, cause in javascript String is an object. const { [i]: char, [i + 1]: adjacentChar } = upperChars if (char !== adjacentChar) { adjacentDiffList.push( Math.abs(char.charCodeAt() - adjacentChar.charCodeAt()) ) } } for (let i = 0; i < adjacentDiffList.length - 1; i++) { const { [i]: charDiff, [i + 1]: secondCharDiff } = adjacentDiffList if (charDiff > secondCharDiff) { return false } } return true } export { checkExceeding }