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

Ricardo Felix
Ricardo Felix
5,828 Points
Posted by Ricardo Felix
Ricardo Felix
5,828 Points

i am having an issue with the second task in the second section of my challenge 2 of 2

Every time I go to the second secton of the task the first section no longer works

app.js 
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
var userName = id.toUpperCase() += lastName += "#";
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>

2 Answers

filipz
filipz
11,063 Points
filipz
filipz
11,063 Points

Hi Ricardo, the challenge is asking to combine variables and strings together and store them in the variable userName. You got the first part right, which was storing id.toUpperCase() but then it says to add the symbol first then the lastName in uppercase. The final code should look like this, hope this helps!

var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
var userName = id.toUpperCase() + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();
Robin Orellana
Robin Orellana
11,626 Points
Robin Orellana
Robin Orellana
11,626 Points

hey ricardo,

so the second challenge asks you to add the # and the lastName all upper case to the string so it looks like this 23188XTR#SMITH

so first you add the id to uper case to get '23188XTR' then add the pound so you just need the string '#' and lastly add the last name to upper case to look like this 'SMITH' . when you put it all together it should look like this '23188XTR#SMITH' remember that at the end it is suppose to be all one string so all of it needs to be in (). like this

var userName = ( id.toUpperCase() + '#' + lastName.toUpperCase() );

hope this helped