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Anthony Harrison
1,064 PointsTask 1 no longer passing
Help?
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
var userName = id.toUpperCase();
userName = "#" + lastName.toUpperCase;
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2 Answers
Brad McKinney
14,677 PointsIdk if this is the "right" way to complete this challenge, but this one took me a while to get past without help. How i passed Task 2 was i put the # symbol in the first line of code. Like so: var id = "23188xtr#";
Then i added a new line of code at the bottom to concatenate, as instructed. Like so: userName += lastName.toUpperCase();
Again, this might not have been the "right" or best way to solve the problem, but it worked.
Josef Aidt
7,722 PointsFinally, add a # symbol and lastName in uppercase to the end of the userName string. The final value of userName is "23188XTR#SMITH".
In your code, you are reassigning the value of userName to #SMITH instead of adding onto the username , which should be 23188XTR#SMITH. You will need to use an operator other than "=" to complete the final portion of the challenge.
Josef Aidt
7,722 PointsJosef Aidt
7,722 PointsIn my opinion that is the correct way, however I found it to be more concise to add onto the existing
userNameassignment.var userName = id.toUpperCase() + '#' + lastName.toUpperCase();Brad McKinney
14,677 PointsBrad McKinney
14,677 PointsJosef Aidt , If the "userName" variable was assigned an uppercase version of the "id" variable, Would it also make sense to add another line of code like userName += "#" + lastName.toUpperCase(); ? even though it isn't as concise as your solution, would it still work?
This is what confused me, because that was my original solution, but it failed and i couldn't figure out why.
Anthony Harrison
1,064 PointsAnthony Harrison
1,064 PointsHi Josef,
I had already tried this way you have given example of, however still get the same outcome that Task 1 isn't passing?
Josef Aidt
7,722 PointsJosef Aidt
7,722 PointsBrad McKinney it should; either approaches are valid. Check Chrome's dev tools' JS console when submitting, if there is a syntax error in your code it will output to the console.
Anthony Harrison on the last line in your code you are missing the
()at the end of thetoUpperCase()method. I didn't notice that at first, however my statement about using another operator (+=) still stands.