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Carleen Hall
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,158 PointsGetting Information from functions
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong, maybe I do not fully understand the return function? I am stuck on the Challenge Task 2 of 3
Inside the function's code block add this line of code var year = new Date().getFullYear(); This creates a new variable and stores the current year in it. Now, add a statement that returns this variable from the function.
Bummer! Did you use return to return the year variable like this return year;?
function getYear() {
var year = new Date().getFullYear();
return "year";
}
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function getYear() {
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var year = new Date().getFullYear();
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return "year";
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}
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3 Answers
Ethan Rivas
9,979 PointsThe problem is that you're returning a string: "year" instead of just the name of the variable year
Try return year;
function getYear() {
var year = new Date().getFullYear();
return year;
}
Carleen Hall
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,158 PointsThanks for clearing that up for me. However, in the video [time stamp 107] Dave added a string/quotation marks to his return end function. How was that possible, can anyone explain?
Ethan Rivas
9,979 PointsYou can tell to your function what return, I mean, you can return a string, a integer, a boolean, etc too.
But in this case, you need return the name of the variable for return you whats inside It, or you can just simple write return = New Date... but is a good way put It inside a variable.
Sprry if I wrote something wrong im using my phone :p
Carleen Hall
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,158 PointsThanks! Ethan. I got it now.
Craig Fender
7,605 PointsCraig Fender
7,605 PointsReturn is used to end a function and return the sequence back to where it was originally called from. What you're returning is a string because you're wrapping it in quotes. If you want to return the variable year, then just return year without the quotes.
return year;