Basic JavaScript - Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings

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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
It keeps telling me I have syntax error, that I am missing a semicolon.
Your code so far

const myStr = "I am a \"double quoted\" string inside\ "double quotes\"."; // Change this line

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Safari/605.1.15

Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings

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Look at the color of the letters in the code you posted. That should give you a hint.

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Thank you sir, bur now its telling me I should have 2 (") and 4(")?

const myStr = "I am a \"double quoted\"string inside\"double quotes\"."; // Change this line

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You are missing spaces in your string

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Also, for challenges like these make sure to look at the console output.

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It will show you where your mistakes are so you can fix them

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