New line character is required before third line

[tauheedkhan]

Challenge Escape Sequences in Strings has an issue.
User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36.
Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.

My code:

var myStr="FirstLine\n\\SecondLine\\\rThirdLine"; // Change this line

[dhcodes]

@tauheedkhan Could you provide some more information? If you're curious about why there isn't a new line before the third line, it's because it uses a carriage return which is quite similar. You can read about the differences here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1761051/difference-between-n-and-r

[erictleung]

@dhcodes I think the issue comes from the instructions

Assign the following three lines of text into the single variable myStr using escape sequences.

FirstLine
\SecondLine\
ThirdLine

Because when you print out the correct string, you don't get that new line.

We can either add the \n requirement on top of the carriage return or we can replace the carriage return for the \n requirement.

Although I liked having carriage return in the challenge so that you're able to try different escape characters, practically, we'd probably want to use \n as it'll more commonly be used. So I'd go for replacing the carriage return with a new-line, but I'm open to either.

[tauheedkhan]

@erictleung In either case, expected result should be changed as carriage return will not give you a new line. Although I agree, using as many escape sequence in the problems is good for better understanding.

[BKinahan]

Ah, when I wrote this string for the challenge I tested it in repl.it and the FCC console, but not in browser consoles. In the former \r does introduce a line break but not in the latter.

I'd suggest replacing the \r requirement with a second \n, but also changing one of the escaped backslashes to a different character to maintain the diversity of escaped characters used. Perhaps this: "FirstLine\n\t\\SecondLine\nThirdLine"

FirstLine
    \SecondLine
ThirdLine

It loses some symmetry but should resolve the issue 😄

[erictleung]

@BKinahan sounds like a good compromise to me! 👍

[ktajpuri]

@erictleung @Bouncey Can I work on fixing this one?

[dhcodes]

@ktajpuri 👍 go for it :). If you have any problems, you can ask for help in the Contributors chat room

[systimotic]

@ktajpuri Are you still working on this?

[elisecode247]

I'd like to work on it if it's open

[Waseemarif]

It's not working
var myStr = "FirstLine\n\SecondLine\n\t\rThirdLine";
same Error: There should be a newline character between SecondLine and ThirdLine

[StepanBohdan]

RESOLVE
var myStr = 'FirstLine\n\t\SecondLine\nThirdLine';
var myStr = 'FirstLine\newline\tab\backslashSecondLine\newlineThirdLine'

[dogomeodenzoy]

Try this one: works for me,

[Domitech27]

var myStr = "FirstLine\n\t\SecondLine\nThirdLine";
This is what solve this challenge
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/escape-sequences-in-strings/

[mtarun15]

var myStr = "\nFirstLine\n\t\SecondLine\nThirdLine";
This gave me the solution.

[DevAashish08]

"\nFirstLine\n\t\SecondLine\nThirdLine";
not working

[RandellDawson]

I am locking this because this issue has been closed and the other comments I am seeing should be addressed on the forum.