Learn Introductory JavaScript by Building a Pyramid Generator - Step 2

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I wrote a code as below and the system says “Your declaration should end with a semicolon.” But I don’t did and even ChatGPT says it’s correct. So I don’t understand why the system says so. Can anybody help me pass?
let character = ‘hello’ ;

Your code so far


// User Editable Region

let character = 'hello' ;

// User Editable Region

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Learn Introductory JavaScript by Building a Pyramid Generator - Step 2

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Hi there and welcome to our community!

Your code is not passing because you should be declaring a variable (character) but you shouldn’t assign it a value at this point. You should use the same syntax as the example given in the instructions.

As for semicolons… as per the note in the challenge description:

Note : It is common practice to end statements in JavaScript with a semicolon. ;

It is not strictly necessary to include semicolons when writing Javascript but there’s a good reason for the convention.

Here’s a useful explainer: