/**
* What is a palindrome? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome
* Receives a string and returns whether it can be rearranged to become a palindrome or not
* The string can only be a palindrome if the count of ALL characters is even or if the ONLY ONE character count is odd
* Input is a string
*
**/
export const palindromeRearranging = (str) => {
// check that input is a string
if (typeof str !== 'string') {
return 'Not a string'
}
// Check if is a empty string
if (!str) {
return 'Empty string'
}
// First obtain the character count for each character in the string and store it in an object.
// Filter the object's values to only the odd character counts.
const charCounts = [...str].reduce((counts, char) => {
counts[char] = counts[char] ? counts[char] + 1 : 1
return counts
}, {})
// If the length of the resulting array is 0 or 1, the string can be a palindrome.
return (
Object.values(charCounts).filter((count) => count % 2 !== 0).length <= 1
)
}
// testing
// > palindromeRearranging('aaeccrr')
// true
// > palindromeRearranging('leve')
// false