JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Projects - Caesars Cipher

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
upon trying to run my code, i get the error " TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property ‘0’ of string ‘SERR PBQR PNZC’".
This error prevents me from seeing the console.log prints.
Can anyone explain what is causing this problem?

  **Your code so far**

function rot13(str) {

var key="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
for(var i=0;i<=str.length;i++){
  for(var j=0;j<=key.length;j++){
    if(str[i]===key[j]){
      if(j+13>key.length){
        str[i]=key[j - 13];
      }
      else{
        str[i]=key[j + 13];
         
      }
    }
  }
}

console.log(str);
return str;

}

rot13("SERR PBQR PNZC");


  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.81 Safari/537.36 Edg/104.0.1293.47

Challenge: JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Projects - Caesars Cipher

Link to the challenge:

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Strings are immutable. You cannot change individual characters in a string

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Thank you for your help! With this information, I was able to solve the challenge.

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