Use the Conditional (Ternary) Operator what is my mistake?

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


function checkEqual(a, b) {
  return a=b ? false :true; 

}

var a=checkEqual(1, 1);
console.log(a)

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/use-the-conditional-ternary-operator

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console.log(a) return false not return true why ?? can someone explain for me??
3

I think you may be confusing yourself. If we rewrite your ternary operator to an if-statement with the current test where a=1 and b=1, what you’re really saying is:

if(1 === 1) {
return false;
} else {
 return true;
}

You want the return to work the opposite way.

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4

You are using an assignment operator instead of a comparison operator.

5 
oh i have fixed my mistake . thank u so much
6

Please how did you fix this problem

7

try creating your own thread using the Ask for Help button so people can help you based on your own code

8

write return statement like following.

return a==b ? true:false;
9

i have a bit confusion about it
that is my changing <redacted>
the position of true and false

10

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