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CSS Advanced Sass Advanced Functions Strings

Kabolobari Benakole
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Kabolobari Benakole
Courses Plus Student 14,278 Points
Posted by Kabolobari Benakole
Kabolobari Benakole
Courses Plus Student 14,278 Points

What am I doing wrong

style.scss 
$words: 'this is the first string';
$new-words: str-insert($words, 'not ', 2);

.block {
  content: $new-words;
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

You're really close! It looks like you're setting the index for "str-insert" to be the number of words to skip.

But it should be the number of characters to skip instead.

Kabolobari Benakole
Kabolobari Benakole
Courses Plus Student 14,278 Points
Kabolobari Benakole
Kabolobari Benakole
Courses Plus Student 14,278 Points

Hi, Stephen, thanks for your answer. But I still don't get it. I'm supposed to insert the new word "not" at index position 2, counting from 0 right of the $words string. And that's what I thought I've done by the syntax.

I tried 

$words: 'this is the first string';
$new-words: str-insert($words, ' not ', 7);

.block {
  content: $new-words;
}

and still got "Bummer: The 'content' attribute for the .block element is not correct. Did you call the str-insert function with the right arguments?"

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

You're almost there!
You only need to add one new space with the word (as you had originally). And the position is off by one:

$new-words: str-insert($words, 'not ', 8);