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Jackie Irons
1,648 PointsWhy do you need periods in the strings?
Why are there periods ". Welcome to Treehouse." ". Please come agian, when you want to learn some more. " before welcome and please?
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Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 PointsYou are thinking to hard about those periods. These periods are being used within a string, that is within the double/single quotes: "." or '.' so basically those periods, are literally being used as periods in normal grammar. To end a complete thought, not any programming jargon.
Because he is concatenating strings together he decided to add the periods in the other parts of the string.
Rohit Sagar
5,938 PointsWhy are there periods ". Welcome to Treehouse." ". Please come agian, when you want to learn some more. " before welcome and please?
because those are not numbers, because you have to put periods to tell javascript that whatever is in the periods are strings, meanings strings can only take words no numbers.
by the way, you can convert numbers to strings. and you can check if it is a string or what ...
ex
var myName = 'Hello my name is javascript'; console.log(typeof myName);