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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine and Manipulate Strings

Susanna Clough
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Susanna Clough
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Susanna Clough
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Converting a word to Uppercase in a string

It looks correct to me but I keep getting an error. Please help!

app.js 
let firstName = 'Susanna';
let lastName = 'Clough';
let role = 'developer';
const msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ':' + role.toUpperCase() + '.' ;

3 Answers

Helari Sosi
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Hey, In my opinion your solution should work as well. Tested it in borwser too and it worked there. I think this challenge might be buggy and maybe try to use Template Literals to complete the challenge. Template literals should come pretty soon after this.

const msg = `${firstName} ${lastName}: ${role.toUpperCase()}.`

If you already don't know about template literals then here's a good source - Template Literals

NATALIE DRYE
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I am having the same issue as above (also tested in the browser and works just fine) and template literals didn't solve the issue. I am not sure what the problem is.

Susanna Clough
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Susanna Clough
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Susanna Clough
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Susanna Clough
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I actually finally got it to work. I tried template literals as well and that didn't work. I'm not sure why it finally worked. I tried to report it as a bug but I was told to check with the community. I know it's frustrating but keep trying.

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I just had my web dev partner look at it and he said I forgot the space after the colon and that I should take the period out at the end...sure enough, I did as advised and it worked just fine. Buggy for sure, it shouldn't have let me get past the 2nd part by adding the period. Anyway, isn't learning fun!