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Alba Vrapi
2,341 PointsFinally, add a # symbol and lastName in uppercase to the end of the userName string. The final value of userName is "231
How I can solve this exercise
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
var userName = id.toUpperCase()+ #SMITH;
<!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

Em Har
9,775 Pointsvar id = "23188xtr"; var lastName = "Smith";
var userName = id.toUpperCase("STRING") + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();

jonathon bujosa
4,056 PointsFirst take the var id that has been set to uppercase and use concatenation to add the # symbol, then concatenation again to add the var lastName in uppercase. so.. userName += "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();
Your answer wasn't correct because you didn't use concatenation to add the symbol and last name to the id variable correctly.

Steven Parker
221,451 PointsIt turns out this particular challenge is pretty tolerant and the solution shown does pass, even with the erroneous argument in it. Most challenges are much more picky.

Alba Vrapi
2,341 PointsDone , thank you :)
Steven Parker
221,451 PointsSteven Parker
221,451 PointsAlso, Treehouse discourages posting of explicit solutions without explanation. If they see it, it may be redacted.