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Stephen Bicker
3,686 Pointssplice is not working
When I say "saying = saying.splice(1,2, "slow", "red");" it returns "quick", "brown" rather then replacing those words with "slow", "red".
1 Answer
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Stephen,
You don't want to assign the return value of the splice method call back to saying.
splice returns an array of the removed values.
So saying is going to equal `["quick", "brown"] after the assignment.
You only want to call the splice method on the array.
saying.splice(1, 2, "slow", "red");
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsJason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsYou could assign the return value to a different variable if you needed to save the removed elements, for example.