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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine and Manipulate Strings

Posted by Levi Sanders
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Levi Sanders
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 1,685 Points

Do I need to create a new variable in order to manipulate an existing value into all upper case letters?

This is challenge three on manipulating and transforming strings.

Levi Sanders
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Levi Sanders
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 1,685 Points

Thank you, Jasper!

Jasper Peijer
Jasper Peijer
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Jasper Peijer
Jasper Peijer
45,009 Points

No problem, just make sure to mark the post as answered if it helped out. :)

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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FYI: Answers can be marked and voted on, but not comments.

Jasper Peijer
Jasper Peijer
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Jasper Peijer
Jasper Peijer
45,009 Points

Oh my bad, I didn't even realize the difference until now

1 Answer

Jasper Peijer
Jasper Peijer
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Jasper Peijer
Jasper Peijer
45,009 Points

There's a few options you have here:

You could call the uppercase function when initializing the variable:

let role = 'developer'.toUpperCase();
const msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + role;

You could reinitialize the variable like this:

let role = 'developer';
role = role.toUpperCase();
const msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + role;

You could put the uppercase version into a new variable:

let role = 'developer';
let roleUpper = role.toUpperCase();
const msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + roleUpper;

Or you could call the upper case function while initializing msg:

let role = 'developer';
const msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + role.toUpperCase();

The last one is most likely to pass the code challenge