Iterators

Micro Blog
Micro Blog in JavaScript 
let string = '👨‍👨‍👧‍👧💜🤧🤒🏥😀';
let string2 = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It barked.';

const splitWithIterator = (s) => [...s].slice(0, 5).join('');

console.log(splitWithIterator(string)); // will be "👨‍👨‍👧" - incorrect
console.log(splitWithIterator(string2)); // will be "‍The q"

This solution:

  • Uses spread syntax to unpack the string into an array of its characters.
    • internaly, the spread operator works with iterators to separate the string by its code points.
  • Then it separates the first 5 characters (code points).
  • Finally, it joins them back into a string.
Note

This approach will not yield the correct result when applied to characters that are made of multiple graphere clusters and are meant to represent a single visual unit, such as some emoji.

21st May 2025 · Found it useful?

Other Approaches to Micro Blog in JavaScript

Other ways our community solved this exercise
let string = '👨‍👨‍👧‍👧💜🤧🤒🏥😀';

const splitWithRegEx = (s) => s.match(/.{0,5}/gu)[0];
console.log(splitWithRegEx(string)); // will be "👨‍👨‍👧" - incorrect
Regex

Split a Unicode string using a RegEx. 

let string = '👨‍👨‍👧‍👧💜🤧🤒🏥😀';

const splitWithSegmenter = (s) =>
  Array.from(new Intl.Segmenter().segment(String(s)), (x) => x.segment)
    .slice(0, 5)
    .join('');
console.log(splitWithSegmenter(string)); // will be "👨‍👨‍👧‍👧💜🤧🤒🏥" - correct, yay!
Intl.Segmenter

Split a Unicode string using Intl.Segmenter.