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how to capitalize the first letter of a string?

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To capitalize the first letter of a string, you can use the charAt() and toUpperCase() methods in JavaScript.

Here's an example:

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let myString = "hello world"; myString = myString.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + myString.slice(1); console.log(myString); // Output: "Hello world"

In this example, we use the charAt() method to get the first character of the string, toUpperCase() to capitalize it, and slice() to get the rest of the string. Finally, we concatenate the capitalized first letter with the rest of the string using the + operator.

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how to capitalize the first letter of the word and the first letter of subsequent words

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To capitalize the first letter of a word and the first letter of subsequent words in a sentence, you can use the toTitleCase() method in JavaScript. This method returns a new string where the first letter of each word is capitalized. Here is an example:

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let sentence = "how to capitalize the first letter of the word and the first letter of subsequent words"; let capitalizedSentence = sentence.toTitleCase(); function toTitleCase() { return this.replace(/\w\S*/g, function (text) { return text.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + text.substr(1).toLowerCase(); }); } console.log(capitalizedSentence); // "How To Capitalize The First Letter Of The Word And The First Letter Of Subsequent Words"

In this example, we define a function called toTitleCase() that uses a regular expression to match all the words in the sentence. It then uses the charAt() method to capitalize the first letter of each word and substr() method to convert the remaining letters to lowercase. Finally, we call the toTitleCase() method on the sentence to get a new string with each word's first letter capitalized.

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examples of foreach

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Here are some examples of using foreach in JavaScript:

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// Example 1: Loop through an array and log the value of each element const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; numbers.forEach(function(number) { console.log(number); }); // Example 2: Loop through an array of objects and log a property of each object const students = [ { name: 'Alice', grade: 'A' }, { name: 'Bob', grade: 'B' }, { name: 'Charlie', grade: 'C' }, ]; students.forEach(function(student) { console.log(student.name); }); // Example 3: Loop through the characters of a string and log each character const sentence = 'SheCodes is awesome!'; const characters = sentence.split(''); // Use the split() function to turn the string into an array characters.forEach(function(character) { console.log(character); });

In the examples above, forEach is used to iterate over different types of collections (an array of numbers, an array of objects, and a string) and perform a specific action on each element (log to the console). The forEach function takes a callback function as its argument. The callback function is executed once for each element in the collection.

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป assing a objects of array to a variable with foreach()

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Sure, here's an example of how to assign an array of objects to a variable using forEach() in JavaScript:

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const products = [ { id: 1, name: "Product 1", price: 10 }, { id: 2, name: "Product 2", price: 20 }, { id: 3, name: "Product 3", price: 30 }, ]; const productNames = []; // Declare an empty array to hold the product names products.forEach(function(product) { productNames.push(product.name); // Add the name of each product to the productNames array }); console.log(productNames); // Output: ["Product 1", "Product 2", "Product 3"]

In this example, we have an array of objects called products. We want to extract the name of each product and store it in a new array called productNames. We use forEach() to loop through each product in the products array. For each product, we access the name property and use the push() method to add it to the productNames array.

After the forEach() loop is finished, we log the contents of the productNames array to the console. The output shows that we have successfully extracted the names of each product into a new array.

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what is .trim()

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.trim() is a built-in function in JavaScript that removes any white space characters (spaces, tabs, etc.) from both the beginning and end of a string and returns the resulting string. Here's an example:

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const str = " Hello, World! "; const trimmed = str.trim(); console.log(trimmed); // Output: "Hello, World!"

In this example, calling .trim() on the str variable removes the space characters at the beginning and end of the string, leaving only the desired text.

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what is parseInt()

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parseInt() is a function in JavaScript that parses a string argument and returns an integer of a specified radix (the base in mathematical numeral systems). The function takes in two arguments: the first is the string to be converted to an integer, and the second (optional) is the radix. If the radix argument is omitted, the function assumes base 10.

For example, the following code converts the string "42" to an integer:

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const stringNum = "42"; const intNum = parseInt(stringNum); console.log(intNum); // output: 42

Here, since the radix argument is omitted, parseInt() assumes base 10. If the string had been "1010" (binary), we could specify the radix like so:

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const binaryString = "1010"; const intNum = parseInt(binaryString, 2); console.log(intNum); // output: 10

In this example, we set the radix to 2 (binary), so parseInt() returns the integer corresponding to the binary string "1010", which is 10 in decimal.

You can learn more about parseInt() in the MDN Web Docs.

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String to Long java

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To convert a String to a long in Java, you can use the Long.parseLong() method. This method takes a String as its parameter and returns a long value. Here is an example of how to use it in Java:

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String str = "123"; long num = Long.parseLong(str); System.out.println(num); // prints 123

Note that if the String you are trying to convert is not a valid long, you will get a NumberFormatException. To avoid this, you can wrap the code in a try-catch block like this:

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String str = "abc"; try { long num = Long.parseLong(str); System.out.println(num); } catch (NumberFormatException e) { System.out.println("Invalid number format"); }

In this case, the output will be "Invalid number format".

You can learn more about the Long.parseLong() method in the Java documentation.

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write a code to print the palindrome

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import java.util.Scanner; class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter a string: "); String original = input.nextLine().toLowerCase(); String reverse = ""; for (int i = original.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--) { reverse += original.charAt(i); } if (original.equals(reverse)) { System.out.println(original + " is a palindrome"); } else { System.out.println(original + " is not a palindrome"); } } }

This code prompts the user to enter a string, converts it to lowercase, and checks if the string is a palindrome or not. If the string is a palindrome, it prints a message indicating that the input string is a palindrome. Otherwise, it prints the message that the input string is not a palindrome. A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward (ignoring spaces, punctuation, and capitalization).

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what is trim in java script

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The trim() method in JavaScript removes white spaces from both ends of a string.

Here's an example:

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const myString = ' Hello World '; console.log(myString.trim()); //output: 'Hello World'

You can find more information and examples on the trim() method on the official Mozilla Developer Network documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/trim

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what does .length do

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.length is a property of JavaScript strings, arrays, and some other objects that returns the number of characters or elements in that object. For example, if you have a string 'hello', calling the .length property will return 5 because the string 'hello' has 5 characters.

Here's an example in JavaScript:

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const myArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; const myString = 'hello'; console.log(myArray.length); // Outputs: 5 console.log(myString.length); // Outputs: 5

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป can i put .length after a variable? e.g. visit.length

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Yes, you can use the .length property after a variable that holds a string, array, or another object with a length property.

For example, if you have an array called visit that holds five elements, calling visit.length would return 5.

Here's an example in JavaScript:

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const visit = ['Paris', 'London', 'New York', 'Tokyo', 'Sydney']; console.log(visit.length); // Outputs: 5

In the above example, calling visit.length returned 5, which is the number of elements in the visit array.

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is it true that typeof works for primitives and returns a string?

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Yes, typeof is a built-in operator in JavaScript that can be used to check the type of a variable. It works for primitives (such as numbers, strings, booleans, undefined, and null) and returns a string indicating the type of the variable. For example, typeof "hello" would return the string "string". Here is an example:

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let x = 5; console.log(typeof x); // Output: "number"

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java script first letter fo word uppercase

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You can capitalize the first letter of a string in JavaScript using the toUpperCase() and slice() methods. Here's an example:

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const str = "hello world"; const capitalizedStr = str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1); console.log(capitalizedStr); // Output: "Hello world"

First, we use the charAt() method to select the first character of the string. We then use the toUpperCase() method to convert this first character to uppercase. Finally, we use the slice() method to select the rest of the string starting from the second character, and concatenate it with the capitalized first letter.

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how to reverse a string

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Here is the code in JavaScript to reverse a string:

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function reverseString(str) { return str.split('').reverse().join(''); }

The reverseString function takes a string as an argument and returns the reversed version of the input string using split, reverse, and join methods.

Example Usage:

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console.log(reverseString('hello')); // Output: 'olleh' console.log(reverseString('stack overflow')); // Output: 'wolfrevokcats'

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Remove the spaces found in a string using trim() and print

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let myString = " Remove the spaces "; let trimmedString = myString.trim(); console.log(trimmedString);

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how do I capitalize first letter in each word in a string state

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To capitalize the first letter of each word in a string, you can use JavaScript and its built-in methods. Here's an example code block:

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const stringToBeCapitalized = "hello world"; const capitalizedString = stringToBeCapitalized.replace(/\b\w/g, (char) => char.toUpperCase()); console.log(capitalizedString);

Output:

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Hello World

In this example, we used the replace() method to replace the first character of each word with its uppercase version. The regular expression \b\w matches the first character of each word (where \b stands for word boundary and \w stands for any word character). We then pass a function that returns the uppercase version of the first character to the replace() method. Finally, console.log() is used to print the capitalized string to the console.

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only take numbers from a string and turn to int in python

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To take only numbers from a string and turn them into an integer in Python, you can use regular expressions and the int() function. Here's an example:

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import re my_string = "I am 27 years old" numbers = re.findall('\d+', my_string) # finds all the numbers in the string result = list(map(int, numbers)) # converts the numbers to integers and puts them in a list print(result) # prints [27]

In the code above, we import the re module to use regular expressions. Then, we define a string with some text and numbers. We use the re.findall() function to find all the numbers in that string and store them in the numbers variable. Finally, we use a list comprehension and the int() function to convert each number in the list to an integer.

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How to correct wrong speeling in a prompt?

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To correct spelling errors in a prompt, you can use a spell checker or manually review the prompt for errors and make corrections. In many programming languages and text editors, there are built-in spell checkers that can be enabled, or you can use external spell checker libraries. For example, in JavaScript, you can use the spellchecker library (https://github.com/atom/node-spellchecker) to check spelling programmatically.

Here is an example of how to use the spellchecker library in JavaScript to correct a misspelling in a string variable:

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const spellchecker = require('spellchecker'); let prompt = "How to corrct wrong spelling in a prompt?"; // Split the prompt into words let words = prompt.split(" "); // Iterate through each word in the prompt for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { let word = words[i]; // Check if the word is misspelled if (!spellchecker.isMisspelled(word)) { continue; } // Get a list of suggested correct spellings let suggestions = spellchecker.getSuggestionsForWord(word); // Replace the misspelled word with the first suggested spelling if (suggestions.length > 0) { words[i] = suggestions[0]; } } // Join the corrected words back into a string prompt prompt = words.join(" "); console.log(prompt);

This code will correct the misspelling in the prompt and output the corrected prompt: "How to correct wrong spelling in a prompt?"

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change list to string in python

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To convert a list to a string in Python, you can use the join() function.

Here's an example code snippet:

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my_list = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry'] my_string = ', '.join(my_list) print(my_string)

This will output:

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apple, banana, cherry

In this example, join() concatenates the list elements with a comma and space (', ') separator and returns the resulting string.

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป Python Code instructions

input a word and replace the places of the letters

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word = input("Enter a word: ") new_word = "" for i in range(0, len(word), 2): # iterating over the string, starting at 0 with a step of 2 if i == len(word) - 1: # if the index is at the last character, add it to the new word new_word += word[i] else: # if not, switch the positions of the two letters and add them to the new word new_word += word[i + 1] + word[i] print("Original word:", word) print("New word with swapped letters:", new_word)

Explanation:

  • The user is prompted to input a word and the input is stored in the variable word.
  • new_word is initialized as an empty string, which will hold our modified word.
  • We iterate over the word string using a for loop that increments by 2. This allows us to access two letter positions at a time.
  • If the current index is at the end of the string, we add the last letter to new_word.
  • If not, we switch the positions of the two letters by appending the second letter first and the first letter second.
  • Finally, we print both the original word and the modified word.

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input a word and shift the placement of the letters

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#Getting inputs word = input("Enter a word:\n") shift_value = int(input("Enter the shift value:\n")) #Converting to lowercase word = word.lower() #Initializing the cipher variable cipher = "" #Shifting each letter and adding to cipher for letter in word: shifted_letter = chr((ord(letter) + shift_value - 97) % 26 + 97) cipher += shifted_letter #Printing the final cipher print("The shifted word is:", cipher)

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป Technical question

Write a function to find the longest common prefix string amongst an array of strings. If there is no common prefix, return an empty string "".

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function longestCommonPrefix(strs) { if (strs.length === 0) { return ""; } let prefix = strs[0]; for (let i = 1; i < strs.length; i++) { while (strs[i].indexOf(prefix) !== 0) { prefix = prefix.substring(0, prefix.length - 1); if (prefix === "") { return ""; } } } return prefix; }

This is a function in JavaScript that takes an array of strings as its argument and returns the longest common prefix string. It starts by checking if the input is valid (i.e., the array is not empty) and initializing the prefix variable with the first string in the array. It then iterates through the rest of the strings in the array, checking if they share the prefix with the previous strings. If a string doesn't share the prefix, the function shortens the prefix string by one character and checks again, continuing until it finds the common prefix or there is no common prefix. Finally, if a common prefix is found, the function returns it; otherwise, it returns an empty string.

Example of usage:

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let array = ['father', 'fathom', 'fate']; console.log(longestCommonPrefix(array)); // Output: "fat" let array2 = ['candle', 'champion', 'victory']; console.log(longestCommonPrefix(array2)); // Output: ""

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Display the current date following the following format: Today is Thursday, April 4, 2020

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Sure! Here's an example in JavaScript that displays the current date in the format you requested:

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const daysOfWeek = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday']; const monthsOfYear = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']; const today = new Date(); const dayOfWeek = daysOfWeek[today.getDay()]; const dayOfMonth = today.getDate(); const monthOfYear = monthsOfYear[today.getMonth()]; const year = today.getFullYear(); const formattedDate = `Today is ${dayOfWeek}, ${monthOfYear} ${dayOfMonth}, ${year}`; console.log(formattedDate);

This code first creates two arrays for days of the week and months of the year, respectively. It then creates a new Date object which, at the time of creation, has the current date and time. It then extracts the day of the week, day of the month, month of the year, and year from the Date object and formats them into a string in the way you specified. Finally, the code logs that string to the console.

Here's an example output from running this code on April 1, 2021:

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Today is Thursday, April 1, 2021

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Create a program to accept a string from the user and then display the number of words,spaces and sentences in a string and count the number of words that starts with โ€˜Mโ€™ or โ€˜mโ€™.

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#include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { string userInput; cout << "Enter a string: "; getline(cin, userInput); int numWords = 1; int numSpaces = 0; int numSentences = 0; int numWordsStartingWithM = 0; for(int i = 0; i < userInput.length(); i++) { if(userInput[i] == ' ') { numWords++; numSpaces++; } else if(userInput[i] == '.' || userInput[i] == '?' || userInput[i] == '!') { numSentences++; numSpaces++; //Count space between sentences } else if(i > 0 && (userInput[i] == 'm' || userInput[i] == 'M') && userInput[i-1] == ' ') { numWordsStartingWithM++; } } cout << "Number of words: " << numWords << endl; cout << "Number of spaces: " << numSpaces << endl; cout << "Number of sentences: " << numSentences << endl; cout << "Number of words starting with 'M' or 'm': " << numWordsStartingWithM << endl; return 0; }

Note: This code uses getline() to get input from the user, which allows spaces to be included in the input. The program counts a "word" as any sequence of characters separated by a space, even if it is not an actual English word. Additionally, the program counts any sequence of characters ending in a period, question mark, or exclamation point as a sentence.

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how to trim spaces on js

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To trim spaces in JavaScript, you can use the built-in trim() method. This method removes white space from both ends of a string, but not from inside the string. Here is an example:

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const str = " SheCodes "; const trimmedStr = str.trim(); console.log(trimmedStr); // "SheCodes"

In the example above, str is a string with leading and trailing spaces. The trim() method is called on the string and returns a new string with those spaces removed. The output of console.log(trimmedStr) will be "SheCodes", with no leading or trailing spaces.

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how to capitalize in javascript

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To capitalize a string in JavaScript, we can use the toUpperCase() method. This method converts all characters in a string to uppercase letters.

Here's an example:

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let string = "hello world"; string = string.toUpperCase(); console.log(string); // Output: "HELLO WORLD"

We first define a string variable containing the lowercased string we want to capitalize. Then, we call the toUpperCase() method on the string, which returns a new string containing all uppercase characters. Finally, we log the capitalized string to the console.

Note that this method doesn't modify the original string. Instead, it returns a new string with all characters in uppercase.

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how to change case

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To change the case of a string in JavaScript, you can use the toUpperCase() method to convert all characters in the string to uppercase or toLowerCase() method to convert all characters in the string to lowercase.

Example code to change a string to uppercase:

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const myString = "Hello, World!"; const upperCaseString = myString.toUpperCase(); console.log(upperCaseString); //Output: "HELLO, WORLD!"

Example code to change a string to lowercase:

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const myString = "Hello, World!"; const lowerCaseString = myString.toLowerCase(); console.log(lowerCaseString); //Output: "hello, world!"

In React.js, you can use these methods in your render() function to change the case of a string as needed.

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