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The objective of this problem is to replace each first Letter of the word in a paragraph.Here is my code.

function isAlphabet(char){
return (/[a-z]/).test(char);
}

// TODO: Implement this method
function capitalise(paragraph) {
if (paragraph.length===1){
  return paragraph.toUpperCase();
}



  paragraph=paragraph.charAt(0).toUpperCase()+paragraph.slice(1);
  for(let i=2;i<paragraph.length;i++){

    if(paragraph[i-1]==' ' && isAlphabet(paragraph[i])){
      let char_new=String.fromCharCode(paragraph.charCodeAt(i)-32)

     paragraph[i] = char_new;

    }

  }

  return paragraph;
  
}

However I get the following error when I am writing up this line of code:

let char_new=String.fromCharCode(paragraph.charCodeAt(i)-32)
paragraph[i] = char_new;

and the error says :

/sidharthgopalakrishnan-ME_PE_PROGRAMMING_CONSTRUCTS_NEW-bba4832c-4354-4df8-b7e5-b0340a954783/user/Capitalise.js:59 paragraph[i] = char_new; ^ TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property '4' of string 'The quick Brown fox jumps over The lazy dog.'

What I wanted to know was what is TypeError ? and what does a read only property mean ?This is something I want more insight in and lastly what I can do to make this code work in javascript ?

Thanks and Regards

Update: Here is what I tried further:

function isAlphabet(char) {
  return /[a-z]/.test(char);
}
function capitalise(paragraph) {
  if (paragraph.length === 1) {
    return paragraph.toUpperCase();
  }

  let new_para = paragraph.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + paragraph.slice(1);

  for (let i = 2; i < paragraph.length; i++) {
    if (paragraph[i - 1] == " " && isAlphabet(paragraph[i])) {
      // console.log(String.fromCharCode(paragraph.charCodeAt(i) - 32));

      let new_para = paragraph.replace(
        paragraph[i],
        String.fromCharCode(paragraph.charCodeAt(i) - 32)
      );

      console.log(new_para)
    }
  }

  return new_para;
}

However the change isn't being assigned onto the variable I have set it to , through each iteration the respective first letter gets capitalised but it doesnt affect the original state. Can someone help me with this further ?

Sidharth Gopalakrishnan
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  • TypeError means that you did something that is not allowed to do on the target data type. In this case, you want to modify a letter of a String which is not allowed in Javascript as Strings are immutable. You should use a String prototype method (like replace) for that instead. – Máté Wiszt Dec 13 '21 at 16:17

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