Problem with Regular expressions "Using the Test Method"

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

Hi,

This is basic Regexp exercice and my code doesn’t work…I really don’t understand why?

Error message says “result is not defined”

Your code so far


let myString = "Hello, World!";
let myRegex = /Hello/;
myRegex.test(myString); // Change this line

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/regular-expressions/using-the-test-method

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you changed the code too much.

if you reset it and apply the expected code change you will get this line:

let result = myRegex.test(myString); // Change this line

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I got tripped up too!

Its odd because the example they show us excludes the “let result =”

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I feel like I run into this a lot on here. Showing an example that doesn’t work or expecting something that isn’t stated is really frustrating.

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Some of the things that aren’t stated are considered obvious and so not explicitly stated, like here that you need to assign the result of the test method to a variable

Others you are right

But if you have any trouble the forum is here to help you!

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