Weird Syntax Error in switch statements - Am I missing something?

[celebrayt]

Am I missing something here? I’m getting a syntax error in the first case on the first quote when I’m trying to declare switch statements. (6:13)

I’ve looked at all the guides and my code appears to be identical to everything I’m seeing online.

  **Your code so far**

function switchOfStuff(val) {
let answer = "";
// Only change code below this line
switch (val){
case "a":
  answer = “apple”;
  break;
case "b":
  answer = “bird”;
  break;
case "c":
  answer = “cat”;
  break;
default:
  answer = “stuff”;
  break;
}

// Only change code above this line
return answer;
}

switchOfStuff("a");

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.99 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Adding a Default Option in Switch Statements

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[JeremyLT]

@celebrayt

“apple”

These aren’t regular quotation marks. I would guess that you are using an Apple device and Apple is “helpfully” swapping your regular quotes for “smart quotes”. Swap all of the quotation marks to ".

[celebrayt]

Thank you. This was racking my brain for at least 45 minutes