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Repeat the Character in a string based on its Alphabetical index

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Write a function repeatAlpha that takes a string and displays it
repeating each alphabetical character as many times as its alphabetical index.

Solution 

const range = (start, stop, step) =>
  Array.from(
    { length: Math.ceil((stop - start) / step) },
    (_, i) => start + i * step
  );

const upperAlpha = range("A".charCodeAt(0), "Z".charCodeAt(0) + 1, 1).map((x) =>
  String.fromCharCode(x)
);

const lowerAlpha = range("a".charCodeAt(0), "z".charCodeAt(0) + 1, 1).map((x) =>
  String.fromCharCode(x)
);

function getAlphaIndex(char) {
  if (char === char.toUpperCase()) {
    return upperAlpha.indexOf(char) + 1;
  }

  if (char === char.toLowerCase()) {
    return lowerAlpha.indexOf(char) + 1;
  }
}

function repeatAlpha(text) {
  let occurrence = [];

  Array.from(text).forEach((char) => {
    let count = getAlphaIndex(char);
    let result = Array(count).fill(char).join("");
    occurrence.push(result);
  });

  return occurrence.join("");
}

console.log(repeatAlpha("Becky"));
console.log(repeatAlpha("neNgi"));
console.log(repeatAlpha("ChInwendu"));
console.log(repeatAlpha("dindustack"));
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Result 

BBeeeeeccckkkkkkkkkkkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
nnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeNNNNNNNNNNNNNNgggggggiiiiiiiii
CCChhhhhhhhIIIIIIIIInnnnnnnnnnnnnnwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnndddduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
ddddiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnndddduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssssssssssssttttttttttttttttttttaccckkkkkkkkkkk
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Viktor Le • • Edited

Thank for sharing. In addition, I would like to have a verion of repeatAlph which is using built-in String repeat

function repeatAlph(text) {
    let result = '';
    for (let i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
        let repeatTime = getIndexCharInAlphabet(text[i]);
        result += text[i].repeat(repeatTime);
    }
    return result;
}
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