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Posted by Curtis Black
Curtis Black
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Web Design Track JavaScript Strings Basic Objective

Hi, I am having a problem with one of the objectives. It is under the JavaScript Foundations deepdive under the webdesign track. Then under the strings stage it is the first "Basics" objective. The code I put in is: var statement = 'She said "how\'s the family?"'; console.log(statement); It keeps giving me the message: "Bummer! You've the string is the incorrect value remember to use \ before the " or '." I have tried multiple ways of escaping the quotes and to no avail. This should be correct. I don't know why it is not. Thanks. -Curtis

5 Answers

Andrei Mondoc
Andrei Mondoc
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Andrei Mondoc
Andrei Mondoc
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You have to write it like this statement = 'She said \"how\'s the family?\"';

James Anwyl
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James Anwyl
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James Anwyl
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James Anwyl
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Think your doing the escaping right, try using a capital H on how and it should work. Think the editor may be case sensitive.

Curtis Black
Curtis Black
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Curtis Black
Curtis Black
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I tried that, didn't work either. I think there is a bug in the script that checks the answer.

Curtis Black
Curtis Black
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Curtis Black
Curtis Black
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Well that makes me feel stupid lol. Yes it was the capital H. Thanks

James Anwyl
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Lol its always the little errors like this that make you pull your hair out! Sometimes it helps to have someone look at it from a fresh perspective. Glad you got there in the end though :)

EDIT: Just to note both 

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

and 

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

work for the challenge. Perhaps someone with more JS knowledge can tell us if one of them is 'more right' than the other?