Basic javascript #79

[OneStew]

I have no idea what I haven’t done correctly with my code as it is exactly like the answers given by the get help button? I even changed let to var for ‘var answer =’. In the instructions it mentions leaving blank for john and 156 which I included in the answer oringally but in the example itself there were not john or 156 else/ else if statements anyways. Please someone help me understand this.

   **Your code so far**

function chainToSwitch(val) {
 var answer = "";
 // Only change code below this line
 switch(val) {
case "bob":
   answer = "Marley";
   break;
 case 42:
   answer = "The Answer";
   break;
 case 1:
   answer = "There is no #1";
   break;
 case 99:
   answer = "Missed me by this much!";
   break;
 case 7:
   answer = "Ate Nine";
   break;
 }

 }

 // Only change code above this line
 return answer;
}

chainToSwitch(7);

   **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.45 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Replacing If Else Chains with Switch

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[jwilkins.oboe]

HI @OneStew !

Make sure to read the error message very carefully.
You should be seeing this in the console right now

If you format your code like this then you should be able to see the error better.

function chainToSwitch(val) {
  var answer = "";
  // Only change code below this line
  switch (val) {
    case "bob":
      answer = "Marley";
      break;
    case 42:
      answer = "The Answer";
      break;
    case 1:
      answer = "There is no #1";
      break;
    case 99:
      answer = "Missed me by this much!";
      break;
    case 7:
      answer = "Ate Nine";
      break;
  }

}

// Only change code above this line
return answer;
}

chainToSwitch(7);

Look very carefully at your code and you should see that there is an extra special character at the end of your code.

Remove that and it will pass.