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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine and Manipulate Strings

felix oyinloye
felix oyinloye
1,008 Points
Posted by felix oyinloye
felix oyinloye
1,008 Points

Challenge Task 2 of 3 Below role, create a new variable named msg that combines the firstName, lastName and role variabl

what am i doing wrong

app.js 
let firstName= "felix" ;

let lastName= "oyinloye";

let role = "developer";
var msg = firstName +   '  ' lastName ;

var msg= msg + role;

2 Answers

Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov
11,800 Points
Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov
11,800 Points

You have skipped an + before lastName this is where the problem came from. You can check the ES 2015 Template Literals Course which do the same thing like string concatenation but in a more simpler and understandable way : https://teamtreehouse.com/library/basic-and-multiple-line-strings

let firstName= "felix" ;

let lastName= "oyinloye";

let role = "developer";
let msg = firstName + ' ' +  lastName + ':' + ' ' + role ;

This is how it should look with template literals: 

let firstName= "felix" ;

let lastName= "oyinloye";
let role = "developer";

var msg = `${firstName} ${lastName}: ${role}`;