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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine and Manipulate Strings

Ricky Redman
Ricky Redman
7,520 Points
Posted by Ricky Redman
Ricky Redman
7,520 Points

creating a new string combining variables firstName lastName and role

not sure what I'm missing from this code to complete the challenge

app.js 
const firstName= 'Ricky';
const lastName= 'Redman';
const role = 'developer';
let msg= `firstName '+'lastName:'+'role.`;
Mark Casavantes
Mark Casavantes
2,880 Points
Mark Casavantes
Mark Casavantes
2,880 Points

Hello Ricky,

I think you were confusing regular concatination with template literals.

let firstName = "Mark ";
let lastName = "Casavantes ";
let role = 'developer';
let msg = `${firstName} ${lastName} ${role}`

2 Answers

Anna Pichugina
Anna Pichugina
25,364 Points
Anna Pichugina
Anna Pichugina
25,364 Points

Hi Ricky!

In your answer JavaScript is reading everything inside the backticks (`) as a string, including your variable names. Like Mark said, you can use template literals to interpolate your values into the string enclosed by backticks. Another solution that's a little simpler is simply to add strings (and your variables that contain string values) together like this:

let msg= firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + role;
Ricky Redman
Ricky Redman
7,520 Points
Ricky Redman
Ricky Redman
7,520 Points

Thanks Mark and Ana these were helpful explainations