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Darrin Spell Jr
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 10,303 PointsTask 3 of 3
Iām having trouble figuring this task out. Can anyone explain to me what I am doing wrong please?
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
display_menu = ", ".join("sundaes")
2 Answers
Antonio De Rose
20,885 Pointsyour approach is right, but the coding works on a top down approach method, setting up a value to the menu variable should happen to the last, before that should be the display_menu, finally you are missing something which is what should be coming in place of the placeholder {}. you should be using the format function, inside the format function, should be the value, what is to replace the placeholder.
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
display_menu = ", ".join("sundaes")
Darrin Spell Jr
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 10,303 PointsThank you sir! I finally got it thanks to you!