Inequality Operator -- Challenge is not recognizing != in code

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

  **Your code so far**

// Setup
function testNotEqual(val) {
if (val) != 99 { // Change this line
  return "Not Equal";
}
return "Equal";
}

testNotEqual(10);

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Comparison with the Inequality Operator

Link to the challenge:

I think my code is correct. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I also tried it with no spaces. (val)!=99
Thank you,
Suz

2

Hi @suzkuda

You are missing a pair of parenthesis around the if condition. Something like:

if(){

}
3

Oh, thank you, nibble! Everything goes into the ( ).
Great!

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4

The condition on the if-statement is outside the parenthesis

5

Also, “=“ is an assignment operator “==“ is the equality operator

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