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Escaping Literal Quotes challenge test is unclear

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Challenge Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings has an issue. User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36. Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.

My code:


var myStr = "(I am a \"double quoted\" string inside \"double quotes\").";

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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erictleungcommented, May 31, 2016

@Blazer433 thanks for the issue. Your code doesn’t require the parentheses. Looking at that last test, I can see how there can be confusion on what the string should be.

We’ve had lots of issues on this challenge. Looking back at a previous issue, I think a little edit to a suggestion on changing the test to this will help:

Variable myStr should contain the string: I am a "double quoted" string inside "double quotes".

I changed the wording to “contain” because I think the word “equals” could be interpreted as a coding-kind-of equals (i.e. var myStr EQUALS string;), which may have people copy-pasting that string. I think that should help clear up some confusion.

cc/ @FreeCodeCamp/issue-moderators

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daniel-chungcommented, Jun 6, 2016

@Blazer433 I think it makes sense to keep this issue open for the time being because the pull request hasn’t been merged yet (and the issue has not been fully addressed).

@AlenaHall do you mind clarifying what you mean? Thanks!