I Dont understand it

JavaScript
#1

So this is what i have var myStr = ‘I am a “double quoted” string inside “double quotes”.’;
And it wants me to You should use two double quotes ( " ) and four escaped double quotes ( \" ).

Variable myStr should contain the string: I am a "double quoted" string inside "double quotes". please help

#2

The lesson teaches you how to escape. What have you tried. Just try and follow what the lesson teaches.
Post what you try here if it doesnt work.

#3

What have you tried so far? What part did you get stuck on?

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#4

myStr = ‘I am a “double quoted” string inside “double quotes”.’; thats what ive done so far

#5

This is what the lesson says:

In JavaScript, you can escape a quote from considering it as an end of string quote by placing a backslash ( `\` ) in front of the quote.

`var sampleStr = "Alan said, \"Peter is learning JavaScript\".";`

You seem not to be using any backslashes anywhere in your code.

#6

Actually your should be surrounded in backticks for it to be properly readable.

#7

Oh i dont know what that is

#9

Your string is inside single quotes (') not double quotes ("). You will need to escape your double quotes inside the string with the escape charcter (\).

#10

A string is a data type in JavaScript. it is commonly wrapped around by either a single(’ ') or double (" ") quotation mark.
Assuming you have a variable which stores a string,

                           let variable='this is a string'

the computer will understand that it is just a string.
But if you want to quote something in the string above,

                    let variable='this "is" a string'

This will be confusing to the computer because it interpretes anything wrapped around by single or double quotation as a string. therefore, it will be seeing a string “is” inside another string which is not reasonable to it.
So to make the computer to understand that “is” is not a string, you have to place a backslash () before any quotation mark in a string. the variable above is written correctly as:

                  var variable='this \"is\" a string'

The computer will read this as:
this “is” a string

Notice the backslash coming before every quotation mark you dont want the computer to consider as a string.

#11

please let us know if you are okay.

#12

Just to be clear, what you are doing “works” in the sense that it gives the same result, but the lesson is trying to get you to do it a specific way.

These both produce the same string:

const str1 = 'I would "kill" for pie.';
const str2 = "I would \"kill\" for pie.";
console.log(str1 === str2);
// true

They create the same result. but this lesson is trying to make sure that you can do it the second way, with escapes.