Basic JavaScript - Assigning the Value of One Variable to Another

[Rose_Mwanyika]

Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
When I run the code, it returns a syntax error on ‘var’, even though the spelling is the same as the other 'var’s. So now I can’t proceed to the next lesson or rather the project is incomplete.

Your code so far

// Setup
var a;
a = 7;
var b;

// Only change code below this line


var a= var b;

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Assigning the Value of One Variable to Another

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[encode]

The error is due to incorrect syntax in your code. It seems like you’re trying to assign the value of variable a to variable b. However, the statement var a = var b; is not valid in JavaScript. The var keyword is used to declare a variable, not when you’re using the variable.
Your corrected code should look like this:

// Setup
var a;
a = 7;
var b;

// Only change code below this line
b = a;