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Only the first dash gets removed — JavaScript debugging challenge | BugHunt

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Only the first dash gets removed

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What it should do

stripDashes(text) should remove every dash, so stripDashes("a-b-c") returns "abc".

What goes wrong

stripDashes("a-b-c") returns "ab-c" — only the first dash is removed.

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Hints

This is a mutation and copying bugs bug

Assignment does not copy, a shallow copy still shares its contents, and mutating methods return None.

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