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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine and Manipulate Strings

Hi I do not understand why I am getting error here

I am able have ths work on local but not on this challnge , am I doing something wrong

app.js
let firstName =('tareq');
let lastName = ('ghulam');
let role = 'developer';
msg = (firstName)+('')+(lastName)+(':')+('')(role)+('.');

1 Answer

Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,840 Points

Hi Tareq,

Just a few simple things that I see here. 1) You don't need the period at the end. I'm not sure if that actually causes a problem with passing, though. 2) There needs to be an actual space inside the quote marks for the spaces. You just have two quote marks side-by-side. 3) There needs to be a plus sign to concatenate the last space with the word role. Additionally, you can combine the colon and the space between lastName and role rather than concatenating twice. Hope this helps!

Thank you Rick :)