Misleading Challenge: Check for Palindromes
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https://www.freecodecamp.com/challenges/check-for-palindromes
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The issue is in the introduction… of the challenge exercise…
“We’ll also pass strings with special symbols, such as “2A3_3a2”, “2A3 3a2”, and “2_A3_3#A2”.”
Should be “We will NOT”
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Its as Berkeley says… why give such an example… when we are already learning to use the “test suite”…
For me I am reviewing the basic algorithms and it didnt make much sense … it would have simply been better to list nonalphanumeric… to show the wide range of characters that are not a-z & 0-9
also I think it would help to drop a link to regex so that there would be 3 links instead of 2
@dhcodes Im just saying instructions are not concise enough…
if anything removing both lines…
"We’ll pass strings with varying formats, such as “racecar”, “RaceCar”, and “race CAR” among others.
We’ll also pass strings with special symbols, such as “2A3_3a2”, “2A3 3a2”, and “2_A3_3#A2”."
may help…
and replacing it with a string or array of non-alphanumeric… also a link to regex would be great