task 3 and 4

Question

I am having an issue answering task 3 and 4,

Every time I do as it asks it comes up with an issue that task one is no longer present.

it says add a variable firstWord to the saying array,so I add... var firstWord = saying;

then there's an issue with task one.

i then revert to just writing, saying.unshift();

because there is an error saying I have no added the unshift method or the variable firstWord to it.

but in task 3 there is nothing telling me to add a unshift method.

someone please help.

Answer 1 · 2014-09-23T13:59:05Z

September 23, 2014 1:59pm

Balraj,

What you're doing is setting the variable firstWord to equal the array saying;

> var firstWord = saying;  // sets firstWord to equal to the saying array
> console.log(firstWord);
["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"]

This is why task 1 is no longer passing, because the firstWord variable no longer equals the last element of the spareWords array.

What you need to do is call a method on the saying array that will add the firstWord variable at the front of the array and then in the challenge after that you need to call a method to add the lastWord variable to the end of the array. the error is telling you that you have not added the unshift method to saying.

var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"];
var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"];

var firstWord = spareWords.shift();
var lastWord = spareWords.pop();

saying.unshift(firstWord);
saying;

That code will get you past the 3rd challenge. See if you can figure out the method you need for the 4th.

-Luke

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