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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine and Manipulate Strings

Posted by Anthony Smith
Anthony Smith
9,897 Points

Cant get my concatenation to work

I've tried to get the code to work but something is not right. See Below:

app.js 
let firstName = 'Anthony';
let lastName = 'Smith';
let role = 'developer';
let msg = firstName + lastName + role + "Carlos Salgado: developer ";
Paul Messmer
Paul Messmer
15,023 Points

Hey Anthony, It is asking you to form a sting like "Carlos Salgado: developer" So in your case the msg will read out "Anthony Smith: developer" If you delete the + "Carlos Salgado: developer" on the end your sting will not have spaces so you will need to add them that looks like this 

let msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + role

inbetween the first and last name I added a space then after the last name that adds a : then a space. on the next step it will ask you to use the toUpperCase method so then add .toUpperCase() to the role the final code should look like this 

let firstName = 'Paul';
let lastName = 'Messmer';
let role = 'developer';
let msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + role.toUpperCase();

I hope this helps

3 Answers

Emmanuel Oyedeji
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Emmanuel Oyedeji
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 2,048 Points
Emmanuel Oyedeji
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Emmanuel Oyedeji
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 2,048 Points

let firstName = "Emmanuel"; let lastName = "Oyedeji"; let role = 'developer'; // the value of shout is DEVELOPER let shout = role.toUpperCase(); const msg= firstName + " " + lastNam

Md Ashiqur Rahman
Md Ashiqur Rahman
7,943 Points
Md Ashiqur Rahman
Md Ashiqur Rahman
7,943 Points

let firstName = 'Carlos'; let lastName = 'Salgado'; let role = 'developer';

let msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ':' + role.toUpperCase() + '.';

I don't know what's wrong here.

Chloe Lee
Chloe Lee
1,377 Points
Chloe Lee
Chloe Lee
1,377 Points

let firstName = 'Chloe';

let lastName = 'Lee';

let role = 'developer';

// the value of 'shout is "DEVELOPER"

const shout = role.toUpperCase();

let msg = firstName + " " + lastName + ": " + shout;

I was stuck on this one for a sec too. Hope that helps!

Shawn Butts
Shawn Butts
3,271 Points
Shawn Butts
Shawn Butts
3,271 Points

I was stuck on the last part for a good while, thank you so much Chloe.