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JavaScript Regular Expressions in JavaScript Reformatting User Input Reformatting Text

Dan Warren
Dan Warren
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Posted by Dan Warren
Dan Warren
9,125 Points

Regular Expressions in JavaScript Coding Challenge

I keep getting the error "Bummer: SyntaxError: app.js: Unexpected token `` (18:3)". How do I fix that?

app.js 
function reformatName(text) {
  const rawName = /^(\w+)\s(\w+)$/;

  // Type your answer on line 5, below:

function formatName(text) {
  const newText = /'$2, $1'/;
  return text.replace(rawName, newText);
}

const form = document.querySelector("form");
const input = form.querySelector("input");
const reformatted = document.getElementById("reformatted");

form.addEventListener("submit", e => {
  e.preventDefault();
  reformatted.textContent = reformatName(input.value);
});
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
</head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />

<body>
    <div id="content">
        <form>
            <label for="name">Enter your first and last name, please.</label>
            <br />
            <input type="text" id="name" name="name">
            <button type="submit">Reformat</button>
        </form>
        <div>
            <h2>Reformatted name:</h2>
                <p id="reformatted"></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>

</html>