trying to create a Discord bot.. why is this not working?

Question

The "message.reply('You Said: ${message.content}');" isn't working, for some reason the ${message.content} gets included in the '' marks therefore the bot replies with: You Said: ${message.content} instead of You Said: the users sent msg.

// Check for when a message on discord is sent
client.on('messageCreate', async function(message){
    try {
        console.log(message.content);
        message.reply('You Said: ${message.content}');
    } catch (err) {
        console.log(err)
    }
});

It should be `message.reply(\`You Said: ${message.content}\`);` — Zsolt Meszaros, Mar 15 '23 at 07:14
Thank you! I thought it might have been something like this! — Thirsty, Mar 15 '23 at 18:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '23 at 14:03

Like people said in the comments, to use template strings you need to use the backtick symbol (`) instead of a single quote or double quotes.

Therefore, this results in the reply statement being replaced with this:

message.reply(`You Said: ${message.content}`);

trying to create a Discord bot.. why is this not working?

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