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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Introducing Strings

Posted by Chun Wang
Chun Wang
1,740 Points

missing ) after argument list

this is my code on one single line:

alert("Your personal information are as follows:" "Your name is " + name "You are " + age + " years old.");

('name' and 'age' are defined variables) and then I got this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list indicating the line with the above code.

I simply don't see how a ) could be missing?

1 Answer

Martin Balon
Martin Balon
43,433 Points
Martin Balon
Martin Balon
43,433 Points

Hi Chun,

The problem is that you can't pass two or more strings to alert method. If you look closely you can see that after follows: you are closing the string with double quotes and then starting new string. That's why alert method expects ')' after closing the string. All you have to do is to get rid off unnecessary double quotes. Also there was missing + sign so you would get another error - exactly same actually - missing ')'. See the code below.:

alert("Your personal information are as follows: Your name is " + name + ". You are " + age + " years old.");