Build a Spam Filter - Step 17

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

please i need help me code works but wont pass the test

Your code so far

/* file: script.js */
const messageInput = document.getElementById("message-input");
const result = document.getElementById("result-message");
const checkMessageButton = document.getElementById("check-message-btn");

const helpRegex = /please help|assist me/i;

// User Editable Region

const dollarRegex = /\s*[0-9]+\s+(hundred|thousand|million|billion)?\s+dollars/i;


// User Editable Region


const denyList = [helpRegex, dollarRegex];

const isSpam = (msg) => denyList.some((regex) => regex.test(msg));

checkMessageButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
  if (messageInput.value === "") {
    alert("Please enter a message.");
    return;
  }

  result.textContent = isSpam(messageInput.value)
    ? "Oh no! This looks like a spam message."
    : "This message does not seem to contain any spam.";
  messageInput.value = "";
});

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Build a Spam Filter - Step 17
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/workshop-spam-filter/step-17

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What does the failing error message say? What have you tried to debug your code?

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so this is the error message " Your dollarRegex must allow any number of spaces before the dollar quantity, and one or more spaces after

And this is my code:

const dollarRegex = /\s*[0-9]+\s+(hundred|thousand|million|billion)?\s+dollars/i;
const test1 = "1           hundred        dollars";
console.log(dollarRegex.test(test1)); // output: true

i need help

4

Replace the first literal space with the \s* expression. The \s character class matches whitespace, such as spaces, tabs, and new lines. The * quantifier means “match the previous character 0 or more times”.

Replace the second literal space with \s+. The + quantifier means “match the previous character at least one time”.

It looks like you made more changes than just these two.

5

really can you please point me to its direction

6

You could reset the code and then only make those two changes.

7

i still cant get it can you explain in a simpler term

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reset the lesson twice now still cant get why the problem still exist

9

How many changes did you make to the code? If it is not two then you made too many changes.

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fixed it the starting dont need the whitespace