Convert HTML Entities problem with creating strings with semicolon, but only in FCC

#1

Tell us what’s happening:

When I try to create a string in an array with the HTML entities, when I put the semicolon at the end of the string it no longer interprets the string correctly.

The output for the code below is as described in the comments.

If I run the same code in CodePen, for the last line I get on the console:

(This is NOT what I posted – it got converted when I saved my post. When I look at it now when editing it looks right, after it’s posted it does not. I imagine it’s part of the same problem.)
[["&","&"],["<","<"],[">",">"],[""","""],["’","’"]]

which I think is what I’m going for.
(or would be, if it would show accurately here).

On the last line of my code below, there is supposed to be this comment:
// in FCC returns [["&","&"],[">","<"],[">",">"],[""","""],["’","’"]];
which shows when I’m editing but not in the posted version.

Your code so far


let subst;
subst = ["&", "&amp"]; // in FCC returns ["&","&amp"]
console.log(JSON.stringify(subst));
subst = ["&", "&amp;"]; // in FCC returns ["&","&"]
console.log(JSON.stringify(subst));
subst = ["&", "&am;"]; // in FCC returns ["&","&am;"]
console.log(JSON.stringify(subst));
subst = ["&", "&a;"];  // in FCC returns ["&","&a;"]
console.log(JSON.stringify(subst));
subst = [["&", "&amp;"], ["<", "&lt;"], [">", "&gt;"], ['"', "&quot;"], ["'", "&apos;"]] // in FCC returns [["&","&"],[">","<"],[">",">"],["\"","""],["'","'"]]; // in FCC returns [["&","&"],["<","<"],[">",">"],["\"","""],["'","'"]]
console.log(JSON.stringify(subst));

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.109 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
I’m not allowed to put in links, so had to take out the link that was automatically put here

#2

In the browser console they will show up correctly. The fcc console is still on the webpage so it is going to convert those things

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#3

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Yeah, that was the problem. Too bad the challenge doesn’t have a warning that you have to use the real console if you want to see what you’re doing. I don’t imagine I’m the only person who’s been confused by this. But now I’m through it. Thanks again!

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