JavaScript output crisis

[Pavel]

Hello,



begining JS problem

i know little at this point 🙁

when i run my code on output i get A TON of confusing data

i am pretty sure it was fine in the last few days when i use console.log

plese see the image on the right

i am after the console running my code... and thats it 🙂

never mind the code itelf.. still learning

of note, months ago i installed node but un-intsalled it... same problem

help me , please 🙂

 

[JosiahMaybe]

Okay so what you have is that parts of a string are not treated like a string and therefore give errors. Try \' in your string or use " or ` to enclose it. X E.

 

[Johna]

Hi there.
You may want to double-check your quotes. Are you sure there are supposed to be 2 single quotes before the comma?

This is where syntax highlighting is useful. What is orange is a string. You don't want + (year - birthYear) + to be a string, which looking at the colours, you can see it is.

You can also use a template literal like this:

const Tim = `I'm ${firstName}, a ${year - birthYear} year old ${job}!`;

 

[Pavel]

thanks!

i am new here 🙂

please be patient with me

installed Code Runner , vscode

i removed the string

got the following

[Running] node "c:\Users\Timothy Welch\Desktop\JS\complete-javascript-course-master\01-Fundamentals-Part-1\starter\more.js"
[Done] exited with code=0 in 0.268 seconds
[Running] node "c:\Users\Timothy Welch\Desktop\JS\complete-javascript-course-master\01-Fundamentals-Part-1\starter\more.js"
1978
[Done] exited with code=0 in 0.254 seconds

1978 comes from my variable const birthYear = 1978

i used console.log(birthYear);

what is all the other stuff? how do i remove it?

is there another way to run the code in VSCode?

THANKS!

 

[Johna]

what is all the other stuff? how do i remove it?

That other stuff is just saying that the code is running, and when it's done. It's not an error message, or part of your code.

is there another way to run the code in VSCode?

If you have node.js installed, you can open a terminal in VSCode and type in node path-to-file.js to run the file.

 

[Pavel]

OK!

i figured it out! 🙂

oubvioulsy i remove the bad string, it helps

i use code runner in VSCode

in its settings i can remove evrything BUT what i want

when i console log, its flawless... no superflous code... just what i want 🙂


crisis avereted!