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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Strings Basics

Zoe Xiao
Zoe Xiao
7,195 Points
Posted by Zoe Xiao
Zoe Xiao
7,195 Points

Is something wrong with this

var statement='She said"How\'s your family?"'; Why doesn't it work?

2 Answers

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Zoe,

You have the right idea it's just that your output doesn't match exactly.

You're missing a space after said and you need to change your to the

var statement='She said "How\'s the family?"';

Zoe Xiao
Zoe Xiao
7,195 Points
Zoe Xiao
Zoe Xiao
7,195 Points

Thanks Jason You are right!

Dan Mirda
Dan Mirda
3,992 Points
Dan Mirda
Dan Mirda
3,992 Points

I think you may have missed a few escape characters:

var statement= 'She said \"How\'s your family?\"';

Hope that helps!

Zoe Xiao
Zoe Xiao
7,195 Points
Zoe Xiao
Zoe Xiao
7,195 Points

Thank you Dan as well! Actually it does not matter if you just use a single slash...

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

That's correct. If you enclose your string with single quotes then you only have to escape single quotes.

Enclosing this string with single quotes requires less escaping than if you had enclosed it in double quotes because then you would have 2 double quotes to escape.