JavaScript SyntaxError: missing ) After Argument List
Article By Digamber Rawat
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Let us understand SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list error in JavaScript. This error occurs when a function is called in JS. It can occur due to various reasons.
Error Reasons:
- missing operator
- typo error
- unescaped string
Check out some examples
As you can see we are trying to generate a random number using Math.random() method In the below example. However, this method won’t work because we are missing “+” operator in the console.log() method.
console.log('Random Number: ' Math.random());
// Output: SyntaxError: missing ) after argument listLet us fix this SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list error in JavaScript by putting "+" operator and check out the output below.
console.log('Random Number: ' + Math.random());
// Output: some random number between 0 and 1SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
console.log('"Hello" + "World"");
// Output: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected tokenAs we can see JavaScript throw SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token error because of missing " ' ".
console.log('"Hello" + "World""');
// Output: "Hello" + "World""