The passed-in argument is always a number, so that cannot happen.

Case 2 makes the assumption that the API is configured properly to only accept expected input. From a cybersecurity perspective, even this is a bad idea. eval() should never be used in code that can be used by anyone aside from the author.

There's always a tryhard for everything lol

because it slices out the min and max so the sum will be 0 if there are two or less elements in the array.

you are thinking of exec that does not return anything

This is cool I didn't know you could do that.

same

HATE RETURN

Good one :D

because despite having its dangers, the solution is beautiful to see, in the context of codewars, this type of solution comes out ahead... multiple 'ifs' are sometimes not very elegant..

Why did I not think of this...

convert value1 and value 2 to strings first. Your code doesn't evaluate the values of value1 and value2. Say value1 = 1 and value2 = 3, your code is trying to evaluate value1 + value2 whereas it should be evaluating 1 + 3.