How am I "missing a function called 'arrayCounter'?"

Question

I don't understand how I don't have the function arrayCounter when I started with function arrayCounter(). Please help me understand what I'm doing wrong.

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    <title>JavaScript Foundations: Functions</title>
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    <h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
    <h2>Functions: Return Values</h2>
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      function arrayCounter() {
        if (typeof arrayCounter == 'string', 'number', 'undefined'){
          arrayCounter = '0';}

        return arrayCounter.length;
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Answer 1 · 2015-02-12T03:51:54Z

February 12, 2015 3:51am

Hey Johnny! The error message is a little misleading, since you obviously do have a function called arrayCounter. There are just a few things you need to change within your function to make it work properly.

First of all, your function is supposed to take in an array as a parameter (and then later return this array's length). Before you return the array's length, you will need to check to see if the type of the parameter being passed in is 'string', 'number' or 'undefined', and return 0 if it is. Your if condition is mostly correct, but keep in mind that to compare multiple things you will need to use the or operator: ||. For example:

if (a === b || a === d) {
  return 0;
}

Hope that helps!

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