/*
Happy Tuesday daily_programmer!

Write a function that combines two lists by alternatingly taking elements. For example: given the two lists [a, b, c] and [1, 2, 3], the function should return [a, 1, b, 2, c, 3]

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*/

// alternate and combine arrays
function altCombineArrays(firstArray, secondArray) {
	// set up our result variable
	var result = [];
	// set up our length variable
	var length = 0;
	// see which array is longer and set that as our length
	if (firstArray.length > secondArray.length) {
		length = firstArray.length;
	} else {
		length = secondArray.length;
	}
	// run our for loop the length of our longest array
	for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
		// only push from first array if we still have a value
		if (i < firstArray.length) {
			result.push(firstArray[i]);
		}
		// only push from second array if we still have a value
		if (i < secondArray.length) {
			result.push(secondArray[i]);
		}
	}
	// return our result
	return result;
}

var arrayOne = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'];
var arrayTwo = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8];

altCombineArrays(arrayOne, arrayTwo);