in the code below, when the "countryName" comes back as "united States", I need to replace to "USA" for the next API call as a parameter to use, because the next API dosen't accept "united States" as country name.
//geonames API call
const getGeo = async city => {
const geoAllData = await axios.get(`${geoBaseURL}=${encodeURIComponent(city)}&maxRows=1&username=${process.env.geoUsername}`);
try {
const geoData = {
lat: geoAllData.data.geonames[0].lat,
lng: geoAllData.data.geonames[0].lng,
countryName: geoAllData.data.geonames[0].countryName,
}
console.log(geoData)
return geoData;
} catch (error) {
console.log("geo API error", error);
}
};I try to add code like this, but no matter where I put it, it has no effect. how can I achieve this?
if(geoData.countryName = "united states"){
geoData.countryName.replace("united states", "USA")
} else {
geoData.countryName
} replace() returns a new string, it doesn't modify the string in place.
But you don't need this, just assign the property to replace it.
And in the condition you have to use == to compare, not =.
if (geoData.countryName == "united states") {
geoData.countryName = "USA";
}You don't need the else statement, it doesn't do anything.