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Mathias Bynens 8ee50178f3 Avoid confusing prototype methods for static methods
Correct: `Array.from()` (it’s a static method)
Incorrect: `Array.join()` (doesn’t exist; it’s a prototype method)

This patch uses the common `#` syntax to denote `.prototype.`.
2018-09-28 15:44:12 -04:00

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### isAnagram
Checks if a string is an anagram of another string (case-insensitive, ignores spaces, punctuation and special characters).
Use `String.toLowerCase()`, `String.prototype.replace()` with an appropriate regular expression to remove unnecessary characters, `String.prototype.split('')`, `Array.prototype.sort()` and `Array.prototype.join('')` on both strings to normalize them, then check if their normalized forms are equal.
```js
const isAnagram = (str1, str2) => {
const normalize = str =>
str
.toLowerCase()
.replace(/[^a-z0-9]/gi, '')
.split('')
.sort()
.join('');
return normalize(str1) === normalize(str2);
};
```
```js
isAnagram('iceman', 'cinema'); // true
```