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Pig Latin

Challenge Overview

Pig Latin is a way of altering English Words. The rules are as follows:

- If a word begins with a consonant, take the first consonant or consonant cluster, move it to the end of the word, and add ay to it.

- If a word begins with a vowel, just add way at the end.

Translate the provided string to Pig Latin. Input strings are guaranteed to be English words in all lowercase.

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function translatePigLatin(str) {
  let vowelRegex = /^[aeiou]/;
  if (vowelRegex.test(str)) return str + 'way';
  let consonantCluster = str.match(/^[^aeiou]+/)[0];
  return str.substring(consonantCluster.length) + consonantCluster + 'ay';
}