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Now, the last thing that I want to show you that you can do with strings is, you can use a method called

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toUpperCase()

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that changes all of the characters in your string to uppercase.

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So as we have done before, we simply take the variable, and then we write a dot, and then we use toUpperCase

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to turn every single character in the string to the uppercase version of it.

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So let me show you what this looks like in real life.

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So I have a variable that is called name and it contains the string Angela.

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Now, if I write name.toUppercase, and then I add some empty parentheses, and finish off my statement

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with a semi-colon,

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and now if I hit command enter, you can see that in the console I get the string that's contained a name

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printed out with every single character changed to the upper case.

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Now at the moment this functionality is completed and then this data is lost.

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So inside here, for example if I just wrote name, which is my variable, you can see that it's still lowercase.

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So if you wanted this to be saved to this variable then all we need to do is say that name equals the

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old version of name, which is this, changed to uppercase, and then reassigned to the same variable.

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So now if I hit run and I type name into the console to try and pull up the value that’s contained inside

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this variable, you can see it is now all capitalized.

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Now we can change it in the other direction as well.

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So, for example, if I wrote name now equals the previous version of name, which at this point is all

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uppercase, .toLowerCase, then

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now, the final version of name is actually all fully lowercase,

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even the first a. It’s all been turned into lowercase.

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Now that's pretty easy and it's pretty useful as well because sometimes you might want to ask the user

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for, say, a prompt and you ask them for ‘What is your name?’.

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And they end up giving you their name in, say, all lowercase, right?

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And that doesn't really look very good when you print it out, say in an alert.

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It doesn't look that great and it won't be consistent across different users.

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Now if you've been watching along with the previous lessons and you've absorbed the knowledge then you

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should now be able to use everything that you've learnt including how to slice strings up, how to concatenate

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strings, and also how to change the casing in order to complete the next challenge.

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So what I want you to do is to create a prompt that asks the user for their name,

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but if they give you a name that is uppercase or lowercase, I want you to be able to send them an alert

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that says Hello,

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and then their name, so for example Angela, but the name has to be capitalized, but only for the first

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character and none of the rest of the characters.

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So I want you to think about this problem,

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and break it down into smaller chunks that you can tackle one at a time.

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Now, while there are much easier ways of doing it if you search Stack Overflow or Google, I want you

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to only use the things that we've talked about in this module.

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So everything that you need to complete this challenge is within the lessons of this module.

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So pause the video now and see if you can complete this challenge.