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Stephanie Varvar
4,273 PointsI don't understand why this isn't the answer. var statement = 'She said \"how\'s the family?\"';
var statement = 'She said \"how\'s the family?\"';
var statement = 'She said \"how\'s the family?\"';
2 Answers
Chris Slack
28,500 PointsEscaping double quotes while within single quotes (and vice versa in JavaScript) is not necessary. However, this won't make you fail because escaping them is also valid, so this will still pass.
The real reason you are not passing is that you are not capitalizing the "H" in "How". I cut and pasted your answer in and just changed that and you pass.
var statement = 'She said \"How\'s the family?\"';
Just a small detail, not really coding related per se, but when writing code the output can be just as important as the back end code, clients expect perfection and so does Treehouse it seems :-)
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsThe challenge answer checking is probably looking for something very specific.
Personally I don't see why that should fail. It's a legitimate way of displaying the text with the escape characters as they are.
But I passed the challenge like this. I used double quotes except for the the character where the apostrophe is needed.
var statement = "She said \"How\'s the family?\"";