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Solution Review: Create Phone Number

Explore how to format an array into a phone number string using JavaScript slice and join methods. Understand step-by-step how to extract array segments and combine them with template literals to build the final formatted string.

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There are various ways to solve the problem in the previous lesson. However, the question required the use of slice to solve the problem. Let’s discuss the solution now.

Solution #

Javascript (babel-node)
function createPhoneNumber(arr) {
    return `(${arr.slice(0, 3).join('')}) ${arr.slice(3, 6).join('')}-${arr.slice(6).join('')}`;
}
console.log(createPhoneNumber([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]))
console.log(createPhoneNumber([3,5,7,1,2,0,9,8,6,4]))

Explanation #

This is an obvious solution. To take out the values from specific indexes, we make use of the .slice method. To convert them to ...