creating the dir and ext variables

Author: HANISADAH

Sprint-1/1-key-exercises/2-initials.js

@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ let firstName = "Creola";
 let middleName = "Katherine";
 let lastName = "Johnson";
 
+let initials = 
+
 // Declare a variable called initials that stores the first character of each string.
 // This should produce the string "CKJ", but you must not write the characters C, K, or J in the code of your solution.
 
-let initials = ``;
+let initials = `${firstName[C]}${middleName[K]}${lastName[J]}`;
 
 // https://www.google.com/search?q=get+first+character+of+string+mdn
 

Sprint-1/1-key-exercises/3-paths.js

@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
-// The diagram below shows the different names for parts of a file path on a Unix operating system
-
 // ┌─────────────────────┬────────────┐
 // │          dir        │    base    │
 // ├──────┬              ├──────┬─────┤
 // │ root │              │ name │ ext │
 // "  /    home/user/dir / file  .txt "
 // └──────┴──────────────┴──────┴─────┘
 
-// (All spaces in the "" line should be ignored. They are purely for formatting.)
-
 const filePath = "/Users/mitch/cyf/Module-JS1/week-1/interpret/file.txt";
-const lastSlashIndex = filePath.lastIndexOf("/");
-const base = filePath.slice(lastSlashIndex + 1);
-console.log(`The base part of ${filePath} is ${base}`);
 
-// Create a variable to store the dir part of the filePath variable
-// Create a variable to store the ext part of the variable
+// Find the index of the last slash and the last dot
+const lastSlashIndex = filePath.lastIndexOf("/");
+const lastDotIndex = filePath.lastIndexOf(".");
 
-const dir = ;
-const ext = ;
+// Extract each part
+const base = filePath.slice(lastSlashIndex + 1); // "file.txt"
+const dir = filePath.slice(0, lastSlashIndex);   // "/Users/mitch/cyf/Module-JS1/week-1/interpret"
+const ext = filePath.slice(lastDotIndex + 1);    // "txt"
 
-// https://www.google.com/search?q=slice+mdn
+console.log(`The dir part of ${filePath} is ${dir}`);
+console.log(`The base part of ${filePath} is ${base}`);
+console.log(`The ext part of ${filePath} is ${ext}`);