Freecodecamp: Escaping Literal Quotes challenge test is unclear

[Blazer433]

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\").";

[HenrySanches]

RIght, I would want to dig into this code

[Carlosmcoelho]

Solution should be:
Variable myStr should equal to (I am a "double quoted" string inside "double quotes").

and your solution is:
(I am a "double quoted" string inside "double quotes").

[BKinahan]

Variable myStr should equal to (I am a "double quoted" string inside "double quotes").

The parentheses in the test message are confusing and ambiguous, though I think they were added recently to clear up confusing ambiguity. Probably no perfect solution here 😄

[erictleung]

@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

[erictleung]

Anyone wanting to fix this, this line needs to be changed to what is below.

"assert(myStr === \"I am a \\\"double quoted\\\" string inside \\\"double quotes\\\".\", 'message: Variable <code>myStr</code> should contain the string: <code>I am a \"double quoted\" string inside \"double quotes\".</code>');"

This is what it should look like:

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[daniel-chung]

Since I haven't see any activity on this thread for almost a week, I decided to take a crack at this. Will be submitting a PR shortly.

[AlenaHall]

What all do you know how to do with coding, if I may ask.

On Sunday, June 5, 2016, Daniel Chung [email protected] wrote:

Since I haven't see any activity on this thread for almost a week, I
decided to take a crack at this. Will be submitting a PR shortly.

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[daniel-chung]

@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!

[Brucius]

I managed to solve it after a few tries. turns out there's a full stop at the end of the sentence. And guys make sure you have no spaces in between the backslashes and quotes and your next letter in line