Daily JavaScript Challenge #JS-185: Find First Repeated Character in a String

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Daily JavaScript Challenge: Find First Repeated Character in a String

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The Challenge

Difficulty: Easy

Topic: String Manipulation

Description

Write a function that finds the first character in a given string that repeats compared to the characters that precede it. If there is no such character, return 'None'.

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Top comments (2)

Sean Dinan • May 27

I'm sure it could be better optimized, but I just took a simple iteration approach:

function firstRepeatedCharacter(str) {
  const split = str.split('');
  for (let i = 0; i < split.length; i++){
      const index = split.findIndex(char => char === split[i]);
      if (index !== undefined && index !== i){
          return split[i];
      }
  }
  return 'None';
}

Dotallio • May 27

I always get tripped up by strings where no character repeats at all, like 'abc', so I make sure to test that early. Did anyone find a one-liner approach they liked?