contract deployed but still getting undefined in truffle console

[pbirbarah]

Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/trufflesuite/discussions/5167

^{Originally posted by pbirbarah June 2, 2022}
I have downloaded truffle extension in visual studio and also downloaded ganache. I was able to deploy a contract on ganache (used truffle migrate successfully) but when I use the truffle console to get info about the contract like const bla = await contract.deployed() I get undefined, can't figure out why

[haltman-at]

Well, note that const bla = await contract.deployed() will return undefined due to the fact that it's a statement, rather than expression, but that doesn't mean that bla itself is undefined; if you enter bla afterward, you should see it defined. Can you confirm whether it works?

(Also, if you simply write bla = await contract.deployed(), then since that's an expression, it ought to return the value assigned to bla; unfortunately, due to issue #3349, currently this will also display undefined. However, even here, the assignment does still occur, and if you enter bla afterward, you should see it defined. Again, can you confirm whether this works?)

Thanks!

[pbirbarah]

Ok thanks!! It worked!