Template Literals

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Does App Lab allow the use of template literals? I have a student learning JS outside of code.org. We are learning string concatenation and he tried to do the following but it didn’t work:
var age = 18;
console.log(Age is ${age});

Any advice?

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String concatenation and string interpolation are different concepts. In your case, concatenating the string would be

console.log("Age is "+age);

while its interpolated equivalent is

console.log(`Age is ${age}`);

String interpolation and template literals were introduced in ES6. Applab is in ES5, so it looks like you’ll have to settle for normal concatenation.

3

Thank you ismailmf77 for your quick reply and explanation!

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