Displaying Syntax Error

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:
SyntaxError: unknown: Legacy octal literals are not allowed in strict mode (8:5)

6 |
7 | a += 12;

8 | b += 09;
| ^
9 | c += 7;

Your code so far


var a = 3;
var b = 17;
var c = 12;

// Only modify code below this line

a += 12;
b += 09;
c += 7;

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Challenge: Compound Assignment With Augmented Addition

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2

it is not liking you wrote 09 instead of 9

3

Thanks a lot!
So why is it not working?

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Because 09 is interpreted as a number in base eight because of the 0 in front of 9 yet a number in base eight cannot have the digit 9 but only the digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7. And in strict mode as stated in the error message, octal literals are not allowed. Read more here about strict mode in JS