Aaron Sargent JavaScript Basics Challenge Task 2 of 2

Hiya,

You need to add two things to the userName string. One is a hash symbol and the other is the upper case lastName. Both can be added with the plus symbol - it's called concatenation.

So, what you've got is two additions to be made; first, the hash sign, then the other variable. Let's start with the hash symbol.

userName + "#"

Then we want to put the upper case version of lastName after that. The question says, The final value of userName is "23188XTR#SMITH". So we can do another addition and call the toUpperCase() method on the lastName variable:

userName + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();

Now, that's all fine but what we haven't done is "saved" it. We've created a new string which will look as it needs to but it isn't stored in userName. We want to assign the new long string back into userName so that the changes are stored. We can do that by starting with userName =. This all looks like:

userName = userName + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();

So, the new string we've created is now stored back into the same variable we started with, overwriting the previous value.

Does that make sense?

Steve.

Hi Aaron,

For the second task, take userName and add a # to it using +, then add the lastName (uppercased) to that. Assign that back into userName.

I hope that helps - shout if not.

Steve.

Thanks for the code.

OK - so you've assigned the uppercase id into userName. Now, you want to add two things to the end of userName. First, add a hash symbol. Then add the lastName.toUpperCase() as you have done. Then make sure you assign that back into userName to make the change work.

So:

userName = userName + // the two things here

Make sense?

Steve.

You typod toUpperCase() - it needs a capital 'C'. The rest is fine.

Steve.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting back to me,

I tried the above as mentioned and i keep getting a message stating question 1 is now wrong?

Hi Steve,

Its probably really simple, i think i might be having a blonde moment lol,

var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";

var userName = id.toUpperCase();
userName + lastName.toUpperCase();

Thanks Aaron

Hi Steve,

Sorry im still not getting it. The previous video doesn't really explain this very well

That makes sense thanks, however i am still getting an error?

This is what i have inputted?

var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";

var userName = id.toUppercase();
userName = userName + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();

Thanks Aaron