function confirmEnding(x, y) {
var k=0;
for(var i=0;i<y.length;i++){
if(x.split('').reverse()[i]=y.split('').reverse()[i]){
k++;
}
}
if(k=y.length){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
console.log(confirmEnding(“Bastian”, “pen”));
Basic Algorithm Scripting: Confirm the Ending
So your code gets parsed by JS interpreter where it gets broken into pieces called tokens. There are 4 of them when it fails to do that it will give out an error and your code wont work
more info here: javascript - No visible cause for "Unexpected token ILLEGAL" - Stack Overflow