Very basic Javascript question

[flutter]

Hi everyone, I just have a very basic question to ask:

I have this code (well this is a part of it as you have probably guessed):

1 char currentCharac;

2 for (int i = 1; i < myString.length(); i++)
3 {
4 currentCharac = myString.charAt(i);
5 if (!(currentCharac = " " ))
6 {
...

My problem is that on line 5, my compiler says "incompatible types, found string but expected character" now I get that the " " is the problem because the space is put in as a string, but I have been trying to find out how to declare a space as a character I have found things like \s\ but that leads me nowhere, unless I'm just not doing it right...

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks for reading!

[Whir]

Why are you doing it as a character? Just make the variable a string to begin with. Unless it's part of an assignment to use a character?

[flutter]

Thanks for your reply, and yeah it's part of an exercise, but the rules are "just get it to work".
So I can change it, as always I look for more complicated things than needed!
Thanks again

[exally]

have you declared 'currentCharac'
"var currentCharac" might help. no promises

[bharford]

shouldn't

if (!(currentCharac = " " ))

be

if (!(currentCharac == " " ))

or

if (currentCharac != " " )

?

[flutter]

Thank you both for your ideas, but no, there's no need for var, it understands what char currentCharac is (I did try putting var in just incase though )

And I had tried that myself:
if (!(currentCharac == " " ))
or
if (currentCharac != " " )
but it still didn't change anything, as I thought before, it is the " " which causes the problem because it is a string and not a character.