Evaluate a string of JavaScript statements

var x = 5;
var str = "if (x == 5) {console.log('z is 42'); z = 42;} else z = 0; ";

console.log("z is ", eval(str));

The use of eval is strongly discouraged. See the Remarks section for details.

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