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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Storing and Tracking Information with Variables Using String Methods

Joshua Wolfe
Joshua Wolfe
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Posted by Joshua Wolfe
Joshua Wolfe
1,897 Points

Help on JavaScript Basics Challenge

The directions below confuse me. Where is the end of the string?

(Finally, add a # symbol and lastName in uppercase to the end of the userName string. The final value of userName is "23188XTR#SMITH".)

app.js 
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";

var userName = id.toUpperCase('#lastName') + #lastname;
index.html 
<!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>
Brian Ball
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Brian Ball
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Hi Joshua,

You're are on the right track by assigning the string method .toUpperCase to id. You also should pass the lastName variable as a parameter for the string method.

This way you are assigning an all uppercase version of the id variable to the userName variable.

var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";

var userName = id.toUpperCase(lastName)

1 Answer

Tim Marks
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One way to add the '#' symbol in between the id and lastName is to separate the two:

var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";

var userName = id.toUpperCase() + '#' + lastName.toUpperCase();

Another way is to use template literals:

var userName = `${id.toUpperCase()}#${lastName.toUpperCase()}`;