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Raedawn Long
6,943 Pointshello, needing assistance with uppercase strings.
I am asked to make one of my variables all uppercase, based on video examples and readings, I should have the code listed above, continue getting error messages, any suggestions?
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
console.log(userName.toUpperCase());
var userName = userName.toUpperCase();
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2 Answers
Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 PointsHi Raedawn,
The challenge is asking you to:
assign an all uppercase version of the
idvariable to theuserNamevariable.
You are assigning userName to userName. This is a syntax error as you are trying to assign a variable that doesn't exist yet to a new variable. Remember that the right side of the assignment operator gets evaluated before the assignment itself. For example, in the line: var x = 1 + 1; x will be 2 because the 1 + 1 gets computed before assigning the result to the variable x.
In addition, it is id that you want to turn into uppercase, not userName.
Cheers
Alex
Gulshan Krishnagiri
1,182 Pointsvar id = "23188xtr"; var lastName = "Smith"; var message = id + '#' + lastName; var userName = message.UpperCase();