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Sara Tankard
Courses Plus Student 3,402 Pointsbug in substr method
Code in question: var quick = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"; var wordBrown = quick.substr(10,14);
I believe this should return 'brown', as requested by the code challenge. However the bummer message says: "Bummer! Was expecting the string of 'brown' but got 'brown fox jump'" It seems the program is returning quick.substr(10,14) is "brown fox jump", which is actually quick.substr(10,24)
2 Answers
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 PointsYou're almost there, the first parameter passed indicates where to start. The second is used to indicate how many characters to extract and return not the position to end.
var wordBrown = quick.substr(10,5);
Sara Tankard
Courses Plus Student 3,402 Pointsyes, thanks so much! I was thinking the method substring() which uses indices, not substr(). Thanks =)