Basic JavaScript - Find the Length of a String

[isnotis]

Tell us what’s happening:
Not sure what’s going wrong. I am getting the value of 8 in the console like it states.

This is the code after everything is reset.
Your code so far

// Setup
let lastNameLength = 0;
const lastName = "Lovelace";

// Only change code below this line
lastNameLength = lastName;

Heres the code after edit

// Setup
let lastNameLength = 0;
const lastName = "Lovelace";

// Only change code below this line
lastNameLength = lastName;
console.log(lastName.length)```

> // running tests

lastNameLength

should be equal to eight. You should be getting the length of

lastName

by using

.length

like this:

lastName.length

. // tests completed // console output 8 8

**Challenge:**  Basic JavaScript - Find the Length of a String

**Link to the challenge:**
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/find-the-length-of-a-string

[colinthornton]

You need to assign the length of lastName to the variable lastNameLength. Your current code assigns the value of lastName to the variable lastNameLength.

[isnotis]

I’m confused. The first sentence looks exactly the same as the second sentence or I have just been staring at this too long.

[colinthornton]

You need to assign the length of lastName to the variable lastNameLength. Your current code assigns the value of lastName to the variable lastNameLength.

You need to change this line:

lastNameLength = lastName;