Basic JavaScript - Declare String Variables

[Ramanuj]

Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

Your code so far

var = myFirstName;
myFirstName = "ramanuj";
var = myLastName;
myLastName = "ghosal"

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SM-P615) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Declare String Variables

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

somehow after writeing alll of this the thing is not working

[Ramanuj]

yep later i did out the semicolond but still no result

[yuvi1]

What’s exactly not working ? please explain

[ehmedpk]

There’s not supposed to be an “=” sign between the var keyword and the name of the variable you are trying to create.

1. var = myFirstName; is not correct syntax and will throw an error.
2. var myFirstName; is using correct syntax and will not throw an error.

In 1. you are trying to set var equal to the value of myFirstName, which is not possible as var is a reserved keyword.

In 2. you are stating that myFirstName is a var.

Use the following syntax if you wish to create variables in the future,

var myVariable = "Hello, world!";

var myFirstName = "ramanuj";