completed task in 3-mandatory-implement/3-to-pounds.js

Author: i786m

Sprint-2/3-mandatory-implement/3-to-pounds.js

@@ -4,3 +4,27 @@
 // You will need to declare a function called toPounds with an appropriately named parameter.
 
 // You should call this function a number of times to check it works for different inputs
+function toPounds(penceString) {
+    const penceStringWithoutTrailingP = penceString.substring(
+        0,
+        penceString.length - 1
+    );
+
+    const paddedPenceNumberString = penceStringWithoutTrailingP.padStart(3, "0");
+
+    const pounds = paddedPenceNumberString.substring(
+        0,
+        paddedPenceNumberString.length - 2
+    );
+
+    const pence = paddedPenceNumberString
+        .substring(paddedPenceNumberString.length - 2)
+        .padEnd(2, "0");
+
+    return `£${pounds}.${pence}`;
+}
+
+console.log(toPounds("399p"));
+console.log(toPounds("50000p"));
+console.log(toPounds("45p"));
+console.log(toPounds("0p"));