I am stumped! Please help: Below role, create a new variable named msg that combines the firstName, lastName and role va

I've also tried the last line as const msg and I've tried different spacing...nothing works

I've also tried the += and var - still nothing, so confused.

firstName = "Jeanene"; let lastName = "Cannon"; let role = 'developer'; var msg = 'firstName + ' ' lastName: + ' ' role + '.' ';

I keep getting messages to pay attention to spacing but everything I've tried has been wrong. I can't move forward until I get this right. please advise.

Hi Jeanene,

It's all in the formatting of that last line. First, the variables don't have quotes around them. The whole statement doesn't need quotes either. There are a lot of + signs connecting everything together. Also the colon needs to go in a set of quotes along with a space. The previous set of quotes needs a space in it as well. And lastly, don't do anything with the period at the end. It has nothing to do with the challenge, it's just part of the challenge instructions.

It should follow this format: let msg = variable + 'space' + variable + ':space' + variable;

Hope this helps!

Yes it does help. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I just started learning this stuff a few days ago so it's a huge learning curve for me. Thank you again - going to try to implement your suggestions and see how they work out for me.

So this ended up being the answer...that colon with the space really took me a minute to figure out..but thank you to the folks who helped me to figure this out.

let msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName + ': ' + role;

let msg = firstName + ' ' + lastName; would set msg to be the value of firstName followed by a space followed by the value of lastName. The variables firstName and lastName should not be surrounded by quotes, since you want their values and not their names. There should be a + separating each of the values.

Using string interpolation, this would give the same result as

let msg = `${firstName} ${lastName}`;