freeCodeCamp: Bug in Waypoint: Quoting String with Single Quotes

Challenge Waypoint: Quoting Strings with Single Quotes has an issue. User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_4) AppleWebKit/600.7.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.7 Safari/600.7.12. Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.

This challenge requires the user to have 2 single quotes and 4 double quotes, but it also asks to get rid of all of the double quotes inside of the string except the ones required to write a string.

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My code:

var myStr = "<a href='http://www.example.com' target='_blank'>Link</a>";

Original code:

var myStr ="<a href=\"http://www.example.com\" target=\"_blank\">Link</a>";

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 22 (6 by maintainers)

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@pyoo0225 thanks for posting this issue! The solution is var myStr = '<a href="http://www.example.com" target="_blank">Link</a>'; . For me instruction is unclear. Only after I saw the second test message (You should have two single quotes ' and four double quotes ") I realized what’s the solution tests expect. I’ll let this open to discuss how we can clarify this instruction.

Please review the Guidelines for Contributing, thank you!.

bugron on Jan 13, 2016

removed solution by mod

fdolzanes1 on Jan 13, 2017

Thanks.

CatMiller07 on Feb 10, 2016

thank for help anyone 😄

normalguy00 on Oct 12, 2018

thanks.

ShivaGuntuku on Mar 4, 2016

Perhaps:

Change the outer quotes on the provided string from double to single and remove the escaping.

Change the containing quotes on the provided string from double to single and remove the escaping.

The other option would be to allow both solutions. Technically they’re both valid. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to change the tests up.

SaintPeter on Jan 13, 2016