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Richard Davila
8,154 PointsWhy did we have to use the split(' ') in the function instead of just .length like we did here?
const myString = { string: "Programming with Treehouse is fun!", countWords: function(){ const wordArray = this.string.split(' '); return wordArray.length; } }
var numWords = myString.countWords();
myString.characters = myString.string.length;
1 Answer
Blake Larson
13,014 Pointssplit() returns an array. In this case it splits the string into words using a space (' ') as an argument.
string.length returns the number of characters in the string.