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raj bhattarai
Courses Plus Student 392 Pointsadd a # symbol and lastName in uppercase to the end of the userName string. The final value of userName is "23188XTR#SMI
how can i add a symbol # ?
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
var userName = id.toUpperCase ( );
var userName += lastName.toUpperCase( );
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
3 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! It seems like you understand concatenation so I'm just going to give this hint. You can concatenate multiple strings like so:
variable1 + "#" + variable2;
I feel confident that you can get it with this hint, but let me know if you're still stuck!

freden29
2,907 PointsYou have to concatenate both variables (id + lastName) with ('#') in the middle, like this: var userName = id.toUpperCase() + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();

derek loureiro
3,239 Pointswhy do I frequently get this error? I keep returning and entering task 1, and it will never accept my answer for task 2.