Assignment in conditional expression
compiler-errors, for-loop, javascript
Solution
`=` is assignment, but in conditional statements you need to check for equality (`==`), check if something is greater (`>`), check if something is less (`<`) etc. You are assigning the variable `j` the length of `myName` rather than checking some condition on this line:
for(var j = i;j = myName.length;){
Instead you probably need to do something like this:
for(var j = i;j <= myName.length;){
However, this may not necessarily be the solution to your Codecademy Assignment, but it will solve your specific javascript error. play around with and read up on `<`, `>`, `==` and the other conditionals mentioned here to try to figure out what works.
Edit: if you wanted a solution to your entire problem, it would have been helpful to post a link to the problem in the question and not only mention the specific error you were getting, but explain the entire question. That being said, you missed a few things here:
- You were doing assignment instead of checking a condition as I explained above.
- You forgot to increment `j` in your `for` loop as Franklin mentioned in the comments. You need to do `j++`.
- You are not stopping at the correct point in the string. As Codecademy says, "...your second `for` loop should stop when it reaches its current point in the string + `myName.length`." This means that you need to stop at `text.length + myName.length` instead of just `myName.length`. That also means you should use `<` rather than `<=` as I recommended above.
Putting all of that together, the solution is to put this line:
for(var j = i;j < (text.length + myName.length); j++){
in place of of this line:
for(var j = i;j = myName.length;){
Problem
I am trying to learn JavaScript at Codecademy. I am working on this problem about for loops, and I can't figure out what is wrong with my code. It says "Assignment in conditional expression," but I don't know what that means. It is saying the error is at the second `for` statement. The goal is to change the value of `hits` to however many times my name was included in the `text` variable string. Here is my code: ``` var text ="Max Gee Max Gee Max Gee"; var myName = "Max"; var hits=[]; for(var i=0;i<text.length;i++){ if(text[i]==="M"){ for(var j = i;j = myName.length;){ hits.push("Max"); } } } ```