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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Strings Basics

Jeff Lange
Jeff Lange
8,788 Points
Posted by Jeff Lange
Jeff Lange
8,788 Points

Am I using the "\" to escape incorrectly?

Alright, so this seems like a pretty straightforward code challenge. They say:

In 'strings.js' file define a string called 'statement' with the text of - She said "How's the family?"

Simple enough. I write this:

var statement = 'She said, "How\'s the family?"';

However, it gives me this error:

Bummer! You've the string [sic] is the incorrect value remember to use \ before the " or '.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug in the website?

4 Answers

Michelle Pepe
PLUS
Michelle Pepe
Courses Plus Student 6,125 Points
Michelle Pepe
Michelle Pepe
Courses Plus Student 6,125 Points

var statement = "She said \"How's the family?\""; console.log(statement);

Jeff Lange
Jeff Lange
8,788 Points
Jeff Lange
Jeff Lange
8,788 Points

After refreshing and putting the same answer in each time, it finally accepted it. Looks like there's some sort of bug on that question.

Cristian Cereseto
Cristian Cereseto
9,627 Points
Cristian Cereseto
Cristian Cereseto
9,627 Points

how you answer it works, but i think it's asking you to escape also the double quotes characters

Jeff Lange
Jeff Lange
8,788 Points
Jeff Lange
Jeff Lange
8,788 Points

I did try that earlier, but it didn't like that either. It MIGHT have been that I had a comma in there ("She said," vs "She said"), but that shouldn't have returned an error with the backslash, since those characters don't actually contact each other.

Thanks for dropping in to help! :)

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Jeff,

It's most likely the comma. Unfortunately error messages don't always match up with what's wrong.

Cristian Cereseto
Cristian Cereseto
9,627 Points
Cristian Cereseto
Cristian Cereseto
9,627 Points

no problem! glad you could tackle it ;)