/* 
Palindromes are words that are the same forward or backward. For example, 
the words "noon" and "kayak" are a palindromes.
 
Write a function to check if a lowercased string of letters is a palindrome. 
If the word is palidrome, return true. If it isn't, return false. 
*/

function isPalindrome(str){
    // console.log(str);
    // console.log(str.split('').reverse().join(''));
    const split = str.split('');
        // console.log(split);
    const reverse = split.reverse();
        // console.log(reverse);
    const join = reverse.join('');
        // console.log(join);  

    return str === str.split('').reverse().join('') ? true : false;        
}

// Test your function
console.log(isPalindrome("abba")); // true
console.log(isPalindrome("civic")); // true
console.log(isPalindrome("octopus")); // false
console.log(isPalindrome("pumpkins")); // false
console.log(isPalindrome("madam")); // true