high-school-sweetheart

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+# Hints
+
+## General
+
+- Browse the [functions available in the _string module_][string-module-functions] to discover which operations on strings Gleam's standard library offers.
+
+## 1. Get the name's first letter
+
+- There is a [function][string-first] to get the first character from a string.
+- There are multiple [functions][string-trim] to remove leading, trailing, or leading and trailing whitespaces from a string.
+
+## 2. Format the first letter as an initial
+
+- There is a [function][string-upcase] to convert all characters in a string to their uppercase variant.
+- The `<>` operator can be used to concatenate strings.
+
+## 3. Split the full name into the first name and the last name
+
+- There is a [function][string-split] that splits a string on whitespace characters.
+- A few first elements of a list can be assigned to variables by pattern matching on the list.
+
+## 4. Put the initials inside of the heart
+
+- The `<>` operator can be used to concatenate strings.
+
+[string-module-functions]: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/string.html
+[string-first]: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/string.html#first
+[string-trim]: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/string.html#trim
+[string-upcase]: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/string.html#uppercase
+[string-split]: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/string.html#split