# Cannot log a string with console.log?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-log-a-string-with-console-log/162960 "2020-09-03T19:41:20Z")\
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It’s a map of a group to their desired home page.

```
     description: "group,c/cat/5|group2,c/cat2/6"

```

So I’m splitting on `|` to get each pair and then split those on the `,` to get

- group → c/cat/5
- group2 → c/cat2/6

But that doesn’t explain why `console.log("Hello world!");` isn’t producing text. . .

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