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

Elizabeth Barker
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Elizabeth Barker
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Posted by Elizabeth Barker
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Elizabeth Barker
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 1,153 Points

I am not sure how to complete task 2 in this series.

I tried:

var userName = id.toUpperCase();

for the first task then

userName += "#" += lastName.toUpperCase();

for the second task, but the message when I checked work was that the first task was no longer passing.

Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Edited for markdown.

1 Answer

Ken Alger
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Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Elizabeth;

Welcome to Treehouse!

The error you received typically means that the new code you added has syntax errors that prevent to code from running properly at all. Your Task 1 code looks great. Let's take a look at Task 2.

Task 2

Complete the assignment to the userName variable by adding a # symbol followed by an all uppercase version of the lastName variable. In other words, using string concatenation so that the final value of userName is "23188XTR#SMITH".

You have the correct idea, but, as I mentioned, the syntax was off a bit. We want to take the old variable of userName and concatenate all that other stuff to it, right? Here is one example of doing that:

task2.javascript 
userName  = userName + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();

We could achieve the same thing by combing both tasks into one line like:

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

That works as well, but I think for the purposes of explanation separating the tasks out into two lines of code better represents what is going on.

Post back if you are still stuck or have further questions.

Happy coding,
Ken