Basic JavaScript - Find the Length of a String

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

// Only change code below this line
lastNameLength = lastName;
lastNameLength = 8;
console.log("Lovelace".length);

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Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Find the Length of a String

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Don’t add any extra lines of code. I would reset the lesson to get the original JS back. The original code sets the variable lastNameLength to the string stored in lastName. You want to set it to the length of the string stored in lastName. You use the .length property to do that.

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The instruction: " Use the .length property to set lastNameLength to the number of characters in lastName"

You didn’t set the ‘length’ property on the ‘lastNameLength’ variable in order to get the number of letters. Apply the .length property on the ‘lastName’ variable and assign the result to the ‘lastNameLength’, then print the result in the console by using the ‘log’ method on the ‘lastNameLength’ variable:

longerVariable = shorterVariable.property
console.log(longerVariable)

This is guidance.

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