Golf Code - run tests not working so I can't test

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

Is this correct? Because Run Tests is not working so I can’t test it.

Your code so far


var names = ["Hole-in-one!", "Eagle", "Birdie", "Par", "Bogey", "Double Bogey", "Go Home!"];
function golfScore(par, strokes) {
  // Only change code below this line
  
  if (strokes = 1){
    return names[0];
  }

  else if (strokes <= par - 2){
    return names[1];
  }

  else if (strokes == to par - 1){
    return names [2];
  }

  else if (strokes == par){
    return names[3];
  }

  else if (strokes == par + 1){
    return names[4];
  }

  else if (strokes == par + 3){
    return names[5];
  }

  else{
    return names[6];
  }
  // Only change code above this line
}

// Change these values to test
golfScore(5, 4);

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.84 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/golf-code/

2

I can see an error here. What is to par-1?

3

Doh! Thank you! I updated Chrome and the Run tests seem to be working now.

4

I am having the same issue.

When I paste my code into Chrome’s console it provides the correct output but I am stuck on this page

var names = [“Hole-in-one!”, “Eagle”, “Birdie”, “Par”, “Bogey”, “Double Bogey”, “Go Home!”];
function golfScore(par, strokes) {
// Only change code below this line
if (strokes == 1){
return names[0];
} else if (strokes <= par -2) {
return names[1];
} else if (strokes = par -1) {
return names[2];
} else if (strokes = par) {
return names[3];
} else if (strokes = par +1) {
return names[4];
} else if (strokes = par +2) {
return names[5];
} else {
return names[6];
}
// Only change code above this line
}

// Change these values to test
golfScore(3, 1);

5

After the first two stroke checks in your code, you’re reinitializing strokes instead of comparing it. Fix that and I think it should work.

6

Thank you for your reply, but I do not understand your answer. What do you mean by

“you’re reinitializing strokes instead of comparing it” .

I also don’t understand why the code works elsewhere but not here.

7

To decide what string to return, the number of strokes of the player needs to be compared to the par or a certain number of strokes above or below par. After the first two comparisons in your code, you’re using “=” instead of “==” which reinitializes the value of strokes to whatever is on the right instead of comparing it to whatever’s on the right. Reinitializing a value and checking it in an if statement always returns true to my knowledge.
In other words, your code will never execute past “return names[ 2 ]” because the if statement for that is reinitializing strokes and always returning true.
Let me know if that helps.

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8

Yes that solved it thank you. I appreciate your guidance