# Escape Sequence in String Exercise Confusion **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 2, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830 "2016-08-02T14:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Playd318](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/playd318/32/162787_2.png) [@Playd318](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Playd318)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/1 "2016-08-02T14:17:54Z")
This exercise baffled me. it want me to create an escape sequence in string so I did \myVar\n\r, myVar\r, and myVar\n. I still have syntax errors. Can you help m e out. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![kevcomedia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/kevcomedia/32/125737_2.png) [@kevcomedia](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/kevcomedia)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/3 "2016-08-02T15:28:51Z")
Hi. Your `Thirdline` is misspelled! It should be `ThirdLine` (note uppercase `L`). ---
**Author:** ![jemagee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jemagee](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/jemagee)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/4 "2016-08-02T15:29:03Z")
Well see the issue with testing is that it’s case sensitive. They want `ThirdLine` Your wrote `Thirdline`. (tests can be written to be case insensitive in general, but they don’t seem to be) This test works fine - I passed it on Sunday ---
**Author:** ![IsaacAbrahamson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/isaacabrahamson/32/30882_2.png) [@IsaacAbrahamson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/IsaacAbrahamson)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/5 "2016-08-02T15:29:51Z")
Ahhhh I hate stupid things like that ---
**Author:** ![jemagee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jemagee](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/jemagee)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/6 "2016-08-02T15:37:20Z")
I wouldn’t consider it stupid per se, Javascript is a case sensitive language - it’s good practice to focus on the case sensitivity when learning Javascript for that reason ---
**Author:** ![IsaacAbrahamson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/isaacabrahamson/32/30882_2.png) [@IsaacAbrahamson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/IsaacAbrahamson)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/7 "2016-08-02T15:38:52Z")
I didn’t mean javascript was stupid. I meant I hate it when I do stupid things like that. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![Playd318](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/playd318/32/162787_2.png) [@Playd318](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Playd318)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/8 "2016-08-02T16:37:09Z")
Assign the following three lines of text into the single variable myStr using escape sequences. var myStr = FirstLine\n\SecondLine\r\ThirdLine\; ? ---
**Author:** ![IsaacAbrahamson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/isaacabrahamson/32/30882_2.png) [@IsaacAbrahamson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/IsaacAbrahamson)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/9 "2016-08-02T19:40:13Z")
> var myStr = FirstLine\n\SecondLine\r\ThirdLine; ? You need to escape the backslashes to, so not `\n\SecondLine`. Instead `\n\\Second Line` ---
**Author:** ![Playd318](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/playd318/32/162787_2.png) [@Playd318](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Playd318)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/10 "2016-08-03T17:06:39Z")
Syntax Error said Unexpected ‘’ and missing semicolon. I looked at this code below and I don’t understand why it’s not working. var myStr = FirstLine\n\Second Line\r\ThirdLine; ---
**Author:** ![Playd318](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/playd318/32/162787_2.png) [@Playd318](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Playd318)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/11 "2016-08-03T17:09:00Z")
I did typed var myStr = FirstLine newline backslash SecondLine carriage return backslash ThirdLine. I tried to post this code but it doesn’t reflect what I’m trying to do. ---
**Author:** ![jemagee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jemagee](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/jemagee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/12 "2016-08-03T17:34:19Z")
You have a \ following by nothing \n \r\ The first backslash only says ‘comment out the next character’ - to comment out a backslash you need to use `\\` ---
**Author:** ![Playd318](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/playd318/32/162787_2.png) [@Playd318](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Playd318)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/13 "2016-08-09T19:15:47Z")
I got it! Thank you for helping out! ---
**Author:** ![jwilkins.oboe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/jwilkins.oboe/32/179497_2.png) [@jwilkins.oboe](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/jwilkins.oboe)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/escape-sequence-in-string-exercise-confusion/24830/14 "2021-01-16T04:41:05Z")
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