From 011d5e8fd6eb233c3072c82ed7d48b6f6360e8c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LJ <23249107+LJNeon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:43:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] BUGFIX: Properly deep copy array data for coding contracts 
 (#1064)

---
 src/NetscriptFunctions/CodingContract.ts | 13 ++-----------
 src/data/codingcontracttypes.ts          |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/NetscriptFunctions/CodingContract.ts b/src/NetscriptFunctions/CodingContract.ts
index 3a9790424..301340415 100644
--- a/src/NetscriptFunctions/CodingContract.ts
+++ b/src/NetscriptFunctions/CodingContract.ts
@@ -67,17 +67,8 @@ export function NetscriptCodingContract(): InternalAPI<ICodingContract> {
       const contract = getCodingContract(ctx, hostname, filename);
       const data = contract.getData();
       if (Array.isArray(data)) {
-        // For two dimensional arrays, we have to copy the internal arrays using
-        // slice() as well. As of right now, no contract has arrays that have
-        // more than two dimensions
-        const copy = data.slice();
-        for (let i = 0; i < copy.length; ++i) {
-          if (data[i].constructor === Array) {
-            copy[i] = data[i].slice();
-          }
-        }
-
-        return copy;
+        // For multi-dimensional arrays, we have to copy the internal arrays as well
+        return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data));
       } else return data;
     },
     getDescription: (ctx) => (_filename, _hostname?) => {
diff --git a/src/data/codingcontracttypes.ts b/src/data/codingcontracttypes.ts
index 5d5ae8f6b..31e9d8afa 100644
--- a/src/data/codingcontracttypes.ts
+++ b/src/data/codingcontracttypes.ts
@@ -1198,9 +1198,9 @@ export const codingContractTypesMetadata: ICodingContractTypeMetadata[] = [
         `"1+01" is not a valid expression`,
         "Examples:\n\n",
         `Input: digits = "123", target = 6\n`,
-        `Output: [1+2+3, 1*2*3]\n\n`,
+        `Output: ["1+2+3", "1*2*3"]\n\n`,
         `Input: digits = "105", target = 5\n`,
-        `Output: [1*0+5, 10-5]`,
+        `Output: ["1*0+5", "10-5"]`,
       ].join(" ");
     },
     difficulty: 10,