Task 3 of 6 says the 10th character is a ' ', when it should be a 'b'? Is the 10th character not including a 0?

Question

Update the variable of 'tenthCharacter' on about line 20, to get the tenth character of the string 'quick'.

You then have to put in quick.charAt(9), but shouldn't it be 10?

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title> JavaScript Foundations: Strings</title>
    <style>
      html {
        background: #FAFAFA;
        font-family: sans-serif;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
    <h2>Strings: Methods</h2>
    <script>
      var quick = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";

          var quickLength    = quick.length;
          var indexOfBrown = quick.indexOf("brown");
          var tenthCharacter = quick.charAt(9);
          var wordBrown = quick;
          var quickUpper = quick;
          var quickLower = quick;
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2014-12-23T01:05:26Z

December 23, 2014 1:05am

looking at the documentation on the charAt method, you can see that the charAt method takes an index as its argument.

indexes start at 0, so the 10th character is at index 9, since the first character is at index 0, the second is at index 1 etc.

quick.charAt(9)

is the 10th character. the 10th character (or the 9th index if you start counting at 0) is the space after the k in quick. You need to include the spaces when you count

Answer 2 · 2014-12-23T02:31:50Z

December 23, 2014 2:31am

Hi Dan,

This challenge is a bit confusing because as Stone Preston mentioned character array's start at the zeroth index however this challenge is sneaky and is actually expecting the 10th character not the 10th index thus the answer is instead:

quick.charAt(10) // "b"

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Task 3 of 6 says the 10th character is a ' ', when it should be a 'b'? Is the 10th character not including a 0?

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Stone Preston

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