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

Posted by Joyce Goldin
Joyce Goldin
3,752 Points

I cannot combine

I do not understand this question

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

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

3 Answers

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Here you go:

var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";

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

They want you to combine all in one variable declaration.

Joyce Goldin
Joyce Goldin
3,752 Points
Joyce Goldin
Joyce Goldin
3,752 Points

Thanks but for some reason it didn't work.

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Joyce, I just pasted it again in your Challenge, and the Challenge accepted it. So I'm wondering if the problem isn't a different one. Very occasionally I've found that the challenge editor doesn't forget an old answer, and keeps giving a Bummer after I've fixed the problem. When that happens I close the browser completely. Then reopen it and try again. With one exception (a Treehouse bug) that solved the problem.