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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Storing and Tracking Information with Variables Using String Methods

Posted by Jason Peay
Jason Peay
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How to assign Uppercase to a variable?

Assign an all uppercase verse of the id variable to the username variable. I received this message after I entered my code, Bummer! There was an error with your code: Reference error: can't find variable stringtoShout

What am I missing?

app.js 
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";

var userName = stringtoShout.toUpperCase ("23188XTR");
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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It wants you to do the uppercase of the id variable. I've got no idea where you got the stringtoShout from :) But this is what they're looking for: 

var userName = id.toUpperCase();

Here we declare a variable named username. Then we take id and run the toUpperCase method on it. Which is built in to string objects. Hope that makes sense!