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Added a code explanation for the beginner and intermediate code solutions of the 'convert-html-entities' algorithm, from the js certification
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Kenny Zhou
2019-02-11 05:17:34 -06:00
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@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ title: Convert HTML Entities
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### Code Explanation: ### Code Explanation:
Explain solution here and add any relevant links * Assign **temp** to `str.split('')`, which creates an array containing each individual character in the passed in string.
* Pass each character in the newly created array into a `switch()` statement.
* Replace the HTML entities with their corresponding HTML entity string (i.e. `'&'` becomes `'&'` in line 51)
* `temp.join('')` converts the array of characters into a string to be returned.
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@@ -96,7 +99,10 @@ Explain solution here and add any relevant links
### Code Explanation: ### Code Explanation:
Explain solution here and add any relevant links * **str** is assigned to a new version of **str** that will contain the original string with all HTML entities converted
* The **first parameters** in `replace()` contains a regular expression that matches all instances of each HTML entity in **str**
* Replace all those instances with the corresponding HTML strings given in the **second parameter** of `replace()`
* Finally, the new **str** is returned
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