How JS forEach works with ternary and if operators?

December 30, 2021

I am trying to understand about 2 hours what I am doing wrong in third and fourth line of code. The console thows out SyntaxError: Unexpected token if or SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list. The first and the second line works as expected.

let arr = ['Custy Stomer', 'C. Oostomar', 'C.U.S. Tomer', 3432434, 'Custo Mer', 'Custopher Ustomer', 3432435, 'Kasti Yastimeur'];

let checkArr = (arr) => arr.forEach(el => console.log(typeof el !== 'string'))

let checkArr = (arr) => arr.forEach(el => if (typeof el !== 'string') { console.log(`Type error: ${el} should be a string!`)} )

let checkArr = ((arr) => { arr.forEach(el => typeof el !== 'string' ? console.log(`Type error: ${el} should be a string!`) : null; )})

checkArr(arr);

>Solution :

Line 3:

Wrap the forEach callback body in brackets

let checkArr = (arr) => arr.forEach(el => {
  if (typeof el !== 'string') { 
    console.log(`Type error: ${el} should be a string!`);
  } 
})

Line 4:

Remove semi-colon

let checkArr = (arr) => { 
  arr.forEach(el => typeof el !== 'string' ? console.log(`Type error: ${el} should be a string!`) : null )
}

Recommended:

const checkArr = (arr) => {
  arr.forEach(el => {
    if (typeof el !== 'string') { 
      console.log(`Type error: ${el} should be a string!`);
    } 
  });
}