I don't understand the role of var answer = ""; and then return answer

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  **Your code so far**


function caseInSwitch(val) {
var answer = "";
// Only change code below this line
switch(val) {
  case 1 :
  console.log("alpha");
  break;
  
  case 2 :
  console.log("beta");
  break;

  case 3 :
  console.log("gamma");
  break;

  case 4 :
  console.log("delta");
  break;
}



// Only change code above this line
return answer;
}

caseInSwitch(1);

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Selecting from Many Options with Switch Statements

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You are supposed to set the contents of the answer variable so that the correct string is returned. You should not use console.log

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