Needing help with Word Blanks challenge (expert basic)

Needing help with Word Blanks challenge (expert basic)
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#1

Tell us what’s happening:
im stuck on the challenge ‘Word Blanks’.

Instructions say this:
wordBlanks should contain all of the words assigned to the variables myNoun , myVerb , myAdjective and myAdverb separated by non-word characters (and any additional words in your madlib).

but also this:
You should not directly use the values “dog”, “ran”, “big”, or “quickly” to create word Blanks .

I’m about ready to give up on java as much as i’m interested in learning it but this stuff has me ripping my eyes out , I’ve come across a couple of things now where the system sort of expects you to know what to do, i can honestly say i’m totally new to coding so there’s not a hope in hell i’ll know the answer.
Any help would be great, thanks people.
p.s @FreeCodeCamp, keep up the great work.

Your code so far


var myNoun = "dog";
var myAdjective = "big";
var myVerb = "ran";
var myAdverb = "quickly";

var wordBlanks = 'The' + myAdjective + myNoun + myVerb + myAdverb; // Only change this line;

Challenge: Word Blanks

Link to the challenge:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/word-blanks

#2

Hint: Sentences are made up of words. Words in a sentence are separated by a special character. Without this character, you would just have a very long string like the following:

Thebigdogranquickly

You will find that from here on out, you will need to pay close attention to exactly what the instructions expect as output. Missing characters or missing the capitalization of something can mean the different between passing and failing a challenge.

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#3

Below is my code now, below that are the instructions.

CODE

var myNoun = "dog";
var myAdjective = "big";
var myVerb = "ran";
var myAdverb = "quickly";

var wordBlanks= 'the' + myAdjective + '' + myNoun +'' + myVerb + '' + myAdverb; // Only change this line;``

INSTRUCTIONS/RULES
1: wordBlanks should be a string.
Passed

2: You should not change the values assigned to myNoun , myVerb , myAdjective or myAdverb .
Passed

3: You should not directly use the values “dog”, “ran”, “big”, or “quickly” to create wordBlanks .
Passed

4: wordBlanks should contain all of the words assigned to the variables myNoun , myVerb , myAdjective and myAdverb separated by non-word characters (and any additional words in your madlib).
Failed

#4

Examples of non-word characters in a sentence would be the following: comma, semi-colon, period, space character. Your wordBlanks variable looks like the following:

thebigdogranquickly

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#5

var wordBlanks='the ' +myAdjective+ '' +myNoun+ '' +myVerb+ '' +myAdverb;`

i have put spaces

#6

Mind that a space in the code, is different from a space in a sentence, programming wise.
So you have to be mindful of everything that stays inside quotes, since the program will treat it as a string.

Let’s have a look at your latest example:

var wordBlanks='the ' +myAdjective+ '' +myNoun+ '' +myVerb+ '' +myAdverb;`
'the '  // words "the" followed by a space  
myAdjective // string variable
'' // empty string: there's no character inside here.
myNoun  // string variable
'' // empty string: there's no character inside here.
myVerb  // string variable
''  // empty string: there's no character inside here.
myAdverb  // string variable

As you can see there are many instances where there is no space.
Just be aware of the difference between

'' // empty open/close quotes
' ' // there is a space character in between quotes

Hope this helps :+1:

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#7

Why didn’t someone mention it like that an hour ago, simple mistake on my behalf but where would we be if we didn’t make mistakes ey.
Thanks very much @Marmiz
also @RandellDawson

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