Error in your code/instructions

JavaScript
1

UI returns an error when the code is correct for challenge “Adding A Default Option in Switch Statements”.
“ReferenceError: a is not defined” occurs because code reads
switchOfStuff(a) when it should read switchOfStuff(“a”) in order to work.

  **Your code so far**

function switchOfStuff(val) {
let answer = "";
// Only change code below this line
switch (val) {
case "a":
  answer = "apple";
  break;
case "b":
  answer = "bird";
  break;
case "c":
  answer = "cat";
  break;
default:
  answer = "stuff";
  break;   
}
// Only change code above this line
return answer;
}

switchOfStuff(a);

Should read switchOfStuff(“a”);

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Adding a Default Option in Switch Statements

Link to the challenge:

2

You haven’t defined a variable named a so you can’t use the variable a in that function call. But you can pass in the string “a”.

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3

Thank you - that’s fine - but your UI instructs the user not to make any changes below a particular comment. I had to make changes below the comment (add inverted commas around the a) to get my code to pass.
Remember you’re dealing with novices here - we don’t understand what we’re doing, but we are told to trust your instructions, but in this case it was necessary to ignore your instructions to pass your test.

5

You changed that line from what you were given

SwitchOfStuff(1);

It really was not.

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