Anyone can this code be written in less lines of code?

[Earl Montgomery]

function is_palindrome(a)

a = strUpper(a).replace(" ", "")

b = a[-1:0]

return b == a

end

a = "mom"

> is_palindrome(a)

[Earl Montgomery]

thought it over for a minute

b = "mom"

> strUpper(b).replace(" ", "") == strUpper(b[-1:0]) ? "Is a palindrome" : "Is not a palindrome"

[Earl Montgomery]

is this a crazy idea

this:

b = "mom"
> strUpper(b).replace(" ", "") == strUpper(b[-1:0]) ? "Is a palindrome" : "Is not a palindrome"

instead being something like:

the input would pull in from the keyboard or wherever and the $_ would be whatever was

typed in the keyboard.  I might have gotten the $_ idea from PowerShell.

> strUpper(input()).replace(" ", "") == strUpper($_[-1:0]) ? "Is a palindrome" : "Is not a palindrome"=

Just my imagine at it again.

On Monday, April 9, 2018 at 1:49:37 PM UTC-4, Earl Montgomery wrote:

[Giancarlo Niccolai]

I got this

return (b=a.uppper().replace(" ","")) and b[-1:0] == b

supposing that an empty string must not be considered a palindrome...