Basic JavaScript - Use Conditional Logic with If Statements

[saswij88]

I have checked this code against the solution and cant for the life of me find any difference in the two. It says that it returns correctly for a true condition but not for a false one. Please help, is this a bug or am I being stupid and have left out some little detail?

  **Your code so far**

function trueOrFalse(wasThatTrue) {
// Only change code below this line
if (wasThatTrue = true){
  return "Yes, that was true";
}
return "No, that was false";


// Only change code above this line

}

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Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Use Conditional Logic with If Statements

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[JeremyLT]

@saswij88

(wasThatTrue = true)

Here you are setting wasThatTrue equal to the boolean value true. You should instead use the comparison operator === (though, you could also omit this check).

[saswij88]

oooooh thank god!!!
That worked, they havent covered that in the course yet. Thanks so much!

[JeremyLT]

The example doesn’t use = or === at all:

function test (myCondition) {
 if (myCondition) {
   return "It was true";
 }
 return "It was false";
}

[krze.tomas]

Hey there,
My brother had the same problem to wrap around his head with operators.
using one ‘=’ you assign whatever you write next.

You are basically saying almost the same as you would write:
function trueOrFalse(wasThatTrue) {
return true;
}

As Jeremy mentioned, you are not comparing, you would need to use ‘==’ or ‘===’ to compare.