Periodic Table Database - Build a Periodic Table Database

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Tell us what’s happening:

I cannot get the “If the argument input to your element.sh script doesn’t exist as an atomic_number, symbol, or name in the database, the only output should be I could not find that element in the database.” requirement to pass even though that’s the output I get when I run the script in the terminal.

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Code Link: Periodic-Table-Database/element.sh at main · UnicornTowel314/Periodic-Table-Database · GitHub

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Periodic Table Database - Build a Periodic Table Database

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Welcome to the forum @sarahmckee714

What is the output for?:

  • s
  • water
  • 1000
  • a1b2

Happy coding

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Thank you so much. I feel a little silly for forgetting to catch cases like those.

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my code stuck at this too, and I have revised it 2 times from scratch so just copied someone else’s code which passed even with a test case with “Hel”.
I was sad and just ended up copying it :frowning:
I hope you find the corrections to your code. :slight_smile:

I have this script which passed all user stories EXCEPT this one.
element_script

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From what I can tell, we had a similar issue.

So, for anyone getting stuck at these cases, I’d like to share the question I asked myself that gave me my AHA moment.

In an if-else statement, how do you catch conditions that you aren’t explicitly checking for?

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Thanks, I will surely use this approach more often.

Although, I found that the main culprit was the “exit 1” status in the if-conditions as it was returning 2 responses, the message and the status, which apparently freecodecamp didn’t liked. :laughing: