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Clamp a day into a billing term

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A billing window runs from day 1 to day termDays. Clamp any given day to within that window.

clampToTerm(termDays: int, day: int) → int

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Where you start

func clampToTerm(termDays int, day int) int {
	
}

Worked examples

CallResult
clampToTerm(31, 35)31
clampToTerm(31, 0)1
clampToTerm(31, 20)20
clampToTerm(0, 5)0

Hint

A pair of comparisons: too low pulls up, too high pulls down.

Reference solution in Go
func clampToTerm(termDays int, day int) int {
	if termDays <= 0 {
		return 0
	}
	if day < 1 {
		return 1
	}
	if day > termDays {
		return termDays
	}
	return day
}

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