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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Strings Basics

Rémi Gérard
Rémi Gérard
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Posted by Rémi Gérard
Rémi Gérard
13,889 Points

Escaped quotation marks not working

why does it throw an error?

strings.js 
var statement = '- She said "How\'s the family?"';

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You're doing great! You've just taken them a little too literally here. Which, generally speaking, is a great thing in challenges! However, the string is not supposed to contain the hyphen. Take a look:

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

Hope this helps! :sparkles: