Remainder challenge needs numbers directly used in modulo

Challenge Finding a Remainder in JavaScript has an issue. User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36. Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.

My code:

// Only change code below this line
var a=11;
var b=3;
var remainder;
var remainder=a % b;

[erictleung]

@ashekgo thanks for the issue. Your answer will give the correct answer, but because our site is directed to beginner coders, this challenge is more simple than you think. The challenge simply wants you to take the remainder directly remainder = 11 % 3.

cc/ @FreeCodeCamp/issue-moderators worth changing? I was thinking we modify the You should use the % operator test to just look for the modulo character. Then we add another test that uses the current test looking for the modolo character to look for the use of two numbers directly with the modulo symbol.

/\d+\s*%\s*\d+/.test(code)

[yuens1002]

Best to check if the variable remainder has been declared elsewhere or not have the variable remainder be declared by default. On Jun 3, 2016 5:09 PM, “Eric Leung” [e-mail] wrote:

@yuens1002 https://github.com/yuens1002 mmm I see. We changed the test recently to look for var remainder = … However, as long as the remainder = …%… is there, it should be correct.

For anyone wanting to fix this, this line https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp/blob/staging/seed/challenges/01-front-end-development-certification/basic-javascript.json#L646 should be changed to:

“assert(/remainder\s_?=\s_?.%.;/.test(code), ‘message: You should use the % operator’);”

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