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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Strings Methods

I dont know what Im doing wrong, its saying my code on line 18 is not passing

The challange is "Update the variable of 'indexOfBrown' on about line 19, to find the index of the string of "brown" in the string 'quick'."

I have

line 18----      var quickLength = quick.length;
line 19----      var indexofBrown =quick; .indexOf('brown');

2 Answers

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

You need to remove the semi-colon after the word "quick" on line 19.

var indexofBrown =quick*;* .indexOf('brown');

it needs to be:

var indexofBrown =quick.indexOf('brown');

thank you! its always the little things I over look