Problem in the exercise: "Finally, add a # symbol and lastName in uppercase to the end of the userName string."

Question

var id = "23188xtr"; var lastName = "Smith"; var username = id.toUpperCase(); var username = username + '#'; var username = username + lastName;

I've tryed it with and without making "Smith" upper case, but everytime i get the message: "Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing."

Can someone explain it to me? Thanks

Answer 1 · 2017-01-05T22:04:44Z

January 5, 2017 10:04pm

A few things:

they want the variable to be called userName with a capital N not username
you only use the var keyword when you're declaring the variable. Then when you want to refer to that same variable, you just use its name, you don't use var again. If you did you'd be declaring a new variable and you don't want to do that in this case.
you need to convert lastName to uppercase as well before you add it on
you might make this a bit more concise by using the += operator, and by combined some of this stuff into one line, but it's not a deal breaker.

Here is my solution:

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

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